Ritual Process - Structure and Deconstruction

Author: Victor Turner
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book is one of the classics in anthropology, standing alongside the great works of Lévi-Strauss and Eliade. In this book, Turner interprets the role of ritual in this group through fieldwork among the Ndembu tribe in Africa. Turner expands the concepts of "liminality" and "communitas," developing traditional structuralism. Contemporaneous with him was Van