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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...



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In the present volume, Turner's remarkably original and wide-ranging mind examines social dramas, usually centering around religious personalities or sacred places, from medieval England to revolutionary Mexico to Zambia, in search of transitions between structure and anti-structure or 'communitas' and the symbols engendered by these processes.

* Journal of the American Academy of Religion *

Dramas Fields and Metaphors

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 31/10/1975
      ISBN13: 9780801491511, 978-0801491511
      ISBN10: 0801491517
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      Sociology Spirituality and religious experience

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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...



      Trade Review

      In the present volume, Turner's remarkably original and wide-ranging mind examines social dramas, usually centering around religious personalities or sacred places, from medieval England to revolutionary Mexico to Zambia, in search of transitions between structure and anti-structure or 'communitas' and the symbols engendered by these processes.

      * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *

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