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

Turner, Victor

ISBN 10: 0801491517 / ISBN 13: 9780801491511

Verlag: Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2012

Beschreibung

Trade paperback, 8vo, approx. 8 x 5.5 in. 301 pages. Series: Symbol, Myth, and Ritual. Illustrated with 3 charts and 4 maps. Cover photograph credited as Mexican image of Christs Scourging at the Pillar. Condition: Very Good+. Glossy purple wraps show light shelf rubbing and a few small surface nicks to the front, with tiny rubs at tips. Spine square and uncreased. Text block lightly toned at edges. Binding tight. Interiors clean with no writing or highlighting. ---. Classic collection of seven essays by the major anthropologist of ritual and religion. Contents include: Social Dramas and Ritual Metaphors; Religious Paradigms and Political Action: Thomas Becket at the Council of Northampton; Hidalgo: History as Social Drama; The Word of the Dogon; Pilgrimages as Social Processes; Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas; Metaphors of Anti-structure in Religious Culture. Illustrations list charts on Becket chronology, genealogy of Henry II, and the Independencia, plus maps of Mexico pilgrimage centers, Pandharpur, Chalma, and Ocotlan. Bibliographic note: copyright page states First published 1974 by Cornell University Press; this copy is a 2012 reprint. 2012 printing of the 1975 paperback edition.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1005

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society
• Verlag: Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0801491517
• ISBN-13: 9780801491511
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Very Good+

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Inhaltsangabe

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 certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new paradigms are generated. To describe and clarify these processes, he ranges widely in history and geography: from ancient society through the medieval period to modern revolutions, and over India, Africa, Europe, China, and Meso-America.

Two chapters, which illustrate religious paradigms and political action, explore in detail the confrontation between Henry II and Thomas Becket and between Hidalgo, the Mexican liberator, and his former friends. Other essays deal with long-term religious processes, such as the Christian pilgrimage in Europe and the emergence of anti-caste movements in India. Finally, he directs his attention to other social phenomena such as transitional and marginal groups, hippies, and dissident religious sects, showing that in the very process of dying they give rise to new forms of social structure or revitalized versions of the old order.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Victor Turner (1920–1983) was professor of religion and anthropology at the University of Chicago. He authored many books, including The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society, and Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual, all published by Cornell.