Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society

by Victor Turner

Book Overview

In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801491517
• ISBN13: 9780801491511
• Release Date: October 1975
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

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Dramas, Fields and Metaphors

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Masterful Essays in Symbolic Anthropology

The role of culture in human societies is explored through a combination of empirical research and the nimble mind and imaginative powers of the late Victor Turner. This collection will prove especially useful to students of comparative religion, social/cultural anthropology, literature, performance, and the visual arts. Turner's essays are far from dry. They thrill with their ability to combine close observations of the "exotic" beliefs of non-Western peoples and cutting edge insights into more familiar cultural dimensions of everyday life in western Europe and the United States.