victor witter (100 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Acceptable. Some damage to the hinges with the pages starting to detach from the other pages and cover. Mainly at the spine. Heavy markings and underlining throughout.

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Used with crack to binding, general wear, and markings, but is still in solid reading condition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual. Turner, Victor Witter. Published by Cornell University Press, 1975. 354p. trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean/unmarked lightly b/s/creased, vgISBN 10: 0801408636ISBN 13: 97808014086323.25.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Book has minor shelving wear to the edges and corners with minor rubbing to the covers. Two matching reading creases can be seen running down the spine. Aside from the items listed this is a good, very sharp copy that remains well-bound with bright pages that are crisp and unmarked.

Softcover. Condizione: Good Condition. A few minor marks to text and margins, light wear to cover. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Anthropology; ISBN: 0801491630. ISBN/EAN: 9780801491634. Inventory No: 049699.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Text clean and tight; closed tear, light wear and slight discoloration to dust jacket; Lectures On The History Of Religions, New Ser., No. 11; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 281 pages.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The Forest of Symbols Aspects of Ndembu Ritual by Victor Witter Turner. Cornell University Press, 1967. 405pp. Language: English.

Condizione: New.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: DUST JACKET. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Dust jacket has some minor tears. Binding is tight/good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. "The book lays its emphasis on the cultural aspects of pilgrimage and focuses on the theological doctrines and popular notions which promote Christian pilgrimage, and the symbols and images which embody them." - Columbia University Press.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Slight edge wear and bumping. Underlining / Highlighting. Faded highlighting.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. Ndembu Divination, Its Symbolism & Techniques (Hardback or Cased Book).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Top 1 inch of the front endpaper is cut away otherwise Fine in a Near Fine jacket. 2nd Printing. 326pp 8vo.

Illini Books Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 391 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Contents: Experience and its expressions / Edward M. Bruner -- Dewey, dilthey, and drama: an essay in the anthropology of experience / Victor W. Turner -- Ordinary and extraordinary experience / Roger D. Abrahams -- Reflexivity as evolution in Thoreau's Walden / Frederck Turner -- Ilongot hunting as story and experience / Renato Rosaldo -- Ethnography as narrative / Edward M. Bruner -- The argument of images and the experience of returning to the whole / James W. Fernandez -- Performance and the structuring of meaning and experience / Bruce Kapferer -- Play and the problem of knowing in Hamlet: an excursion into interpretive anthropology / Phyllis Gorfain -- Symbols, sylphs, and siwa: allegorical machineries in the text of Balinese culture / James A. Boon -- "Life not death in Venice": its second life / Barbara Myerhoff -- Patronage and control in the Trinidad carnival / John Stewart -- Modeled selves: Helen Cordero's "Little People" / Barbara A. Babcock -- Magnitudes of performance / Richard Schechner -- Making experience, authoring selves / Clifford Geertz. Subjects: Ethnology Philosophy. Ethnology Methodology. Symbolic anthropology. Humanities Methodology. 3 Kg.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Plus. 326 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. Owner's name / date front end paper. Some fading from dark red to lighter red on spine of dust jacket.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine (-). First Edition. A collection of essays compiled for a major exhibition at the Smithsonian on the subject of celebration, this book cuts across folklore, anthropology, religion, literature, and the performing arts. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. Provenance provided upon request. Condition notes: 320 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, sm photo frontis. Cover: lt orange, black titles spine; minimal shelfwear. DJ: unclipped, deep orange, Photo + b/w titles front, white titles spine; v lt edge/shelfwear w/ tiny chip back, lt rubbing.

Condizione: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.

No jacket. Condizione: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Sans jaquette. Couverture différente. Edition 1968. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. No dust jacket. Different cover. Edition 1968. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 400 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book Condition: Very Good with no DJ. Black Boards Gilt Title on Spine. First Edition. Slight tropical speckling to top Page Edge only, otherwise, clean, clear text in tightly bound volume. No internal inscriptions, markings or stains. Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.7 x 2.8 cm. Weight: 717 g. In this posthumous collection, Turner continues his quest for 'a liberated anthropology,' a cause helped in part by the recent postmodern consciousness." -- American Theatre. Victor W. Turner (b. 1920¿d. 1983) was a symbolic anthropologist whose comparative investigations of ritual and cultural performance left a unique impression in the social and human sciences, and across the arts. Turner became a prolific contributor to the comparative anthropology of ritual, symbol, and performance and had a prodigious impact across a spectrum of disciplines, from anthropology, religious and theological studies, to cultural, literary, and performance studies, to folklore, literary criticism, and neurosociology. As found in key monographs and numerous essays, his influential formulations on the ontological value of ritual symbolism, ¿liminality,¿ and culture were shaped by a lifelong passion for poetry, the classics, and stage drama. While Turner made a path beyond the Manchester School and Neo-Marxist analysis, he modified a structural-functionalist perspective in an abiding interest in universals in human performance and the fate of religion in postindustrial culture. A departure from social structure toward meaning coincided with a move to the United States, where Turner accepted an appointment as Professor of Anthropology and Chairman of the Committee on African Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (1964¿1968), holding professorships in anthropology in the United States thereafter. It was during his life in the United States that Turner cut his teeth as an iconoclastic essayist and skillful orator ranging widely across disciplines. While Turner¿s ethnographic career began in Africa formulating his ¿social drama¿ model, subsequent investigations included Christian pilgrimage in Mexico and Ireland (as a practicing Catholic), Japanese literary and performative genres, New York¿s experimental Off-Off Broadway theater workshops, and the Carnaval in Rio. These and many other postindustrial performance genres or ¿cultural dramas¿ were understood via his ¿processual analysis,¿ which became integral to the formation of Performance Studies. While attracting controversy for expressing universalisms and his theological position, Turner¿s ideas have retained appeal in the study of contemporary cultural performance. There are no book-length biographies on Turner, presumably, in part, because his endeavor was uniquely interdisciplinary, anti-systematic, and perplexing¿even mystical. A fatal heart attack on 18 December 1983 cut short a very productive scholarly life, but at least we have his books.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book Condition: Very Good with slight tropical speckling to Page Edges, otherwise, clean, clear text in tightly bound volume. No internal inscriptions, markings or stains. Includes index. Second Printing, Cornell paperbacks 1981. Includes bibliographical references. Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches. Weight: 1.1 pounds. "This is a collection of ten essays dealing with various aspects of symbolism and ritual among the Ndembu of Zambia in central Africa. . . . Using data of extraordinary richness, it presents some of the most provocative and suggestive theories recently advanced in the study of ritual behavior and symbolism. . . It provides one of the few postwar studies sure to rank as an ethnographic classic."¿Africa. Considered an ethnographic classic. Victor Turner, a professor at Cornell, was known for his work in both anthropology and the behavioral sciences. These essays go far beyond meticulous recording of Zambian ritual to examine the role of symbols in social processes. Topics include medicine, witchcraft, morality, social structure, rites of passage, color classification, and the role of symbols in so many aspects of tribal life. Photographs, charts, and lists. "A collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. These papers by Victor Turner . . . are all seminal and distinguished."¿American Anthropologist.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Revised Edition. Book Condition: Very Good with minimal shelf wear marks and slight tropical speckling to Page Edges. Otherwise, clean, clear text in tightly bound volume. No internal inscriptions, markings or other stains. xiii, 326 p. 13 plates, illus., tables, map. 23 cm. Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1 inches. Weight: 14.1 ounces. While at Stanford University, Victor Turner wrote The Drums of Affliction: A Study of Religious Processes among the Ndembu (1968). Turner shared the view that social order depends on rituals and ceremonial performances with Emile Durkheim. And he followed Edward Sapir's lead in asserting that culture is a "changing entity, influenced by 'root paradigms,' that is, by axiomatic frames, or deep myths, that propel and transform people and groups at critical moments" Turner agreed with Freud that studying disturbances in patterns offers better insight than does observing normal conditions. He found Kurt Lewin's notion of "social fields" useful in his processual models as was Alfred Schutz' phenomenological sociology which suggested that culture was a constantly negotiated set of meanings. In his dissertation, published as Schism and Continuity in African Society (1957), he introduced the concept of social dramas, which he elaborated on in later works. Social dramas exist as a result of the conflict that is inherent in societies. Social dramas are the "public episodes of tensional irruption" (1974:33). He also refers to them as "units of aharmonic or disharmonic process, arising in conflict situations" (1974:37). Based on his fieldwork among the Ndembu, Turner (1974) asserted that social dramas have "four main phases of public action, accessible to observation" (p. 38). The phases are breach, crisis, redressive action, and reintegration. The first phase is "signalized by the public, overt breach or deliberate nonfulfillment of some crucial norm regulating the intercourse of the parties" (ibid.). Once a breach occurs "a phase of mounting crisis supervenes" in which the breach widens and extends the separation between the parties. The crisis stage has "liminal characteristics, since it is a threshold between more or less stable phases of the social process" (Turner, 1974:39). The third phase of redressive action occurs to limit the spread of the crisis with "certain adjustive and redressive mechanisms . . . [which] are swiftly brought into operation by leading or structurally representative members of the disturbed social system" (ibid.). Turner contributed methodologically to the study of ritual symbols. He introduced the term multivocality to indicate that one symbol may stand for many things. As a result of the polysemous symbols, he suggested a triarchic approach to the study of meaning in ritual symbols. The meaning of symbols must incorporate the exegetical (i.e., indigenous) meaning, the operational meaning and the positional meaning. The exegetical meaning is obtained by "questioning indigenous informants about observed ritual behavior" (Turner, 1967:50). The operational meaning comes from observing what is done with the symbol, the structure and composition of the group that handles the symbol and the affective qualities of the handling of the symbol. The operational meaning also takes into account those groups that are excluded from interacting with the symbol. "The positional meaning of a symbol derives from its relationship to other symbols in a totality, a Gestalt, whose elements acquire their significance from the system as a whole" (Turner, 1967:51). Turner considered himself a comparative symbologist, which suggests he valued his contributions to the study of ritual symbols. It is in the closely related study of ritual processes that he had the most impact. The most important contribution Turner made to the field of anthropology is his work on liminality and communitas. Believing the liminal stage to be of "crucial importance" in the ritual process, Turner explored the idea of liminality more seriously.