In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inte
First published in 1978 and hailed by "Culture" as constituting "an important foreshadowing of issues that have become prominent in more recent anthropology," this classic book, now updated and extens
From Back Cover: Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as vari
In the foreword to the first edition, renowned anthropologist, Victor Turner, wrote that this book was a "succinct and lucid account of the sporadic growth of political anthropology over the past four
Politics: a static network of structural and functional models? Is it a "given" set of rules, statuses and procedures? Or a dynamic process, a continuum related to the past as well as to the present a
