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Bigger, Stephen (2009) Review Article: Victor Turner, Liminality and Cultural Performance. Journal of Beliefs and Values, 30 (1). pp. 1-5. ISSN 1361-7672
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Victor Witter Turner (1920 – 1983), working with his wife Edith Turner, was an anthropologist deeply concerned with ritual both in tribal communities and in the contemporary developed world. His early fieldwork in African villages in the 1950s was typical of the career development of field anthropologists at that time. He developed a special interest in rituals, seeing these as social drama in addition to the religious expression of the sacred. He drew on the work of Arnold van Gennep (1960, originally 1908) on rites of passage (viz. birth, marriage, death and sometimes puberty initiation), translated into English in 1960: Turner focused on the concept of limen, ‘threshold’ and the term liminality. He later applied this to all performance, including the theatre
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: | ritual, performance, liminality, complexity |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | College of Arts, Humanities and Education > School of Education |
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| Depositing User: | Stephen Bigger |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2009 10:02 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jun 2021 09:25 |
| URI: | https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/565 |
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