Blazing the trail : way marks in the exploration of symbols /
Victor Turner (1920-1983) stands as one of the leading anthropologists of the twentieth century, known especially for his work on the process of ritual. This new collection of Turner's writings gathers seven late pieces that reflect his thoughts on such subjects as pilgrimage, sacrifice, and li...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
©1992.
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| Series: | Anthropology of form and meaning.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2vt037d |
| Summary: | Victor Turner (1920-1983) stands as one of the leading anthropologists of the twentieth century, known especially for his work on the process of ritual. This new collection of Turner's writings gathers seven late pieces that reflect his thoughts on such subjects as pilgrimage, sacrifice, and liminal processes. In them he reveals his debt to Freud, his views on morality, and always his fascination with ritual. Representative of Turner's mature scholarship, these essays will be of interest to scholars in literature, mythology, and religion. With its emphasis on symbolic studies, Blazing the Trail serves as a companion volume to the earlier collection of Turner's essays On the Edge of the Bush (Arizona, 1986), which focused on process and performance. The present collection includes a biographical and critical essay by Edith Turner. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 181 pages) |
| Format: | 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. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-173) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816551217 0816551219 0816512914 9780816512911 |