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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主要作者: Turner, Victor W. (Victor Witter), 1920-1983
其他作者: Turner, Edith L. B., 1921-2016
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1992.
叢編:Anthropology of form and meaning.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2vt037d
書本目錄:
  • Prologue: Exploring the Trail / Edith Turner
  • 1. Encounter with Freud: The Making of a Comparative Symbologist
  • 2. Death and the Dead in the Pilgrimage Process
  • 3. Variations on a Theme of Liminality
  • 4. African Ritual and Western Literature: Is a Comparative Symbology Possible?
  • 5. Sacrifice as Quintessential Process: Prophylaxis or Abandonment?
  • 6. The Kannokura Festival at Shingu: The Symbolism of Sun, Fire, and Light
  • 7. Morality and Liminality.