The Anthropology of Experience - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252012364 ISBN 13: 9780252012365

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1986

Synopsis

Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative, literary work, theater, carnival, ritual, reminiscence, and life review. Their studies will be of special interest for anyone working in anthropological theory, symbolic anthropology, and contemporary social and cultural anthropology, and useful as well for other social scientists, folklorists, literary theorists, and philosophers.
 

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About the Author

The late Victor Turner was William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the University of Virginia. He was the author of many books, including the well-known Ritual Process, and had done fieldwork in Zambia, Uganda, Mexico, Ireland, Italy, France, Japan, Brazil, and Israel. Edward M. Bruner, professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has conducted field research among native Americans and in Indonesia. He is editor of Text, Play, and Story and co-editor of Art, Ritual, and Society in Indonesia.
 

Review

"A significant and timely addition to the literature, not only in anthropology but also in the humanities and social sciences generally."--James Peacock, co-author of Human Direction: An Evolutionary Approach to Social and Cultural Anthropology
 

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0252012364
• ISBN 13: 9780252012365
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 391
• Editor: Turner Victor W, Bruner Edward M