Dramas, fields, and metaphors : symbolic action in human society / Victor Turner.
1974
GN451 .T87
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Title
Dramas, fields, and metaphors : symbolic action in human society / Victor Turner.
ISBN
9781501732843 (electronic bk.)
1501732846 (electronic bk.)
0801408164 (hbk.)
9780801408168 (hbk.)
0801491517 (pbk.)
9780801491511 (pbk.)
1501732846 (electronic bk.)
0801408164 (hbk.)
9780801408168 (hbk.)
0801491517 (pbk.)
9780801491511 (pbk.)
Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1974.
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations, maps
Other Standard Identifiers
10.7591/9781501732843. doi
Call Number
GN451 .T87
Alternate Call Number
73.00
MS 6650
MS 6650
Dewey Decimal Classification
301.2/1
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
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Series
Symbol, myth, and ritual series.
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Dramas, fields, and metaphors.
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Table of Contents
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, poverty: religious symbols of communitas
Metaphors of anti-structure in religious culture.
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, poverty: religious symbols of communitas
Metaphors of anti-structure in religious culture.