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Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society

Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society - Hardcover

by Victor Turner
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Availability:In StockContributor:Victor TurnerSeries:Symbol, Myth and RitualAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1974-01-01Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9780801408168ISBN-10:801408164UPC:9780801408168Book Category:Religion, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Spirituality, Anthropology, Death & DyingBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCMGKHKBHC

Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society

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...

Series: Symbol, Myth and Ritual
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9780801408168ISBN-10:801408164UPC:9780801408168Book Category:Religion, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Spirituality, Anthropology, Death & DyingBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCMGKHKBHC

Victor Turner (1920-1983) was professor of religion and anthropology at the University of Chicago. He authored many books, including The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society, and Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual, all published by Cornell.


Publisher: Cornell University Press

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