The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure

Turner, Victor Witter

ISBN 10: 0202010430 / ISBN 13: 9780202010434

Published by De Gruyter, 1972

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Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Slight edge wear and bumping. Underlining / Highlighting. Faded highlighting.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0202010430
• ISBN 13: 9780202010434
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Beautiful brown boards with gold gilt text on cover and spine. Just a hint of wear at edges. Clean pages.LISTEDBY(KAD)

About the Author

Victor Turner (1920-1983) was a research officer at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Zambia, where he began what was to be a lifelong study of Ndembu village life, ritual, and symbolism. He taught at the University of Manchester from 1955 to 1963, when he moved to the United States. Turner served as professor of anthropology at Cornell University, 1964-1968. From 1968 to 1977, he was professor of anthropology and social thought at the University of Chicago, and then until the time of his death he was William R. Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the University of Virginia.

Roger Abrahams recently retired as director of the Center for Folklore and Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania.

Alfred Harris was a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Rochester. He served as the chair of the anthropology from 1964-1971 and he was well known for being the editor of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures.