ISBN:
1845454626
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9781845454623
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 358 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance
DDC:
306.4/8
Keywords:
Turner, Victor Witter
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Ethnology Philosophy
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Popular culture
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Theater and society
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Symbolic anthropology
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Performing arts Social aspects
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Rites and ceremonies
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Upon the 25th anniversary of his passing, this collection addresses the wide application of Victor Turner's thought to cultural performance in the early 21st century. From anthropology, sociology, and religious studies to performance, cultural, and media studies, Turner's ideas have had a prodigious interdisciplinary impact. Examining his relevance in studies of performance and popular culture, media, and religion, along with the role of Edith Turner in the Turnerian project, contributors explore how these ideas have been re-engaged, renovated, and repurposed in studies of contemporary cultura
Description / Table of Contents:
Title page-Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Part I-Performing Culture: Ritual, Drama, and Media; Ch 1-Toward a unified theory of cultural performance; Ch 2-The ritualization of performance (studies); Ch 3-Performing 'sorry business'; Ch 4-Liminality in media studies; Ch 5-Social drama in a mediatized world; Part II-Popular culture and rites of passage; Ch 6-Modern sports; Ch 7-Trance tribes and dance vibes; Ch 8-Backpacking as a contemporary rite of passage; Ch 9-Walking to hill end with Victor Turner
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III-Contemporary Pilgrimage and CommunitasCh 10-Of ordeals and operas; Ch 11-'Shopping for a self'; Ch 12-Turner meets Ganghi; Ch 13-Dramas, fields, and 'appropriate education'; Part IV-Edith Turner; Ch 14-An interview with Edith Turner; Ch 15-Woman/women in 'the discourse of man'; Ch 16-Faith and social science; Ch 17-Challenging the boundaries of experience, performance, and consciousness; Contributor biographies; Select bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-350) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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