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  • The Ritual Process

    Structure and Anti-Structure

    by Victor Turner, Alfred Harris, Roger Abrahams ...
    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 inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors

    Symbolic Action in Human Society

    by Victor Turner ...
    Series series Symbol, Myth and Ritual
    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 ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Schism and Continuity in an African Society

    A Study of Ndembu Village Life

    by Victor Turner ...
    With a new foreword by Bruce Kapferer, Professor of Anthropology, James Cook University- A reprint of the seminal anthropological work of the 1960s. Originally published by Manchester University Press.Victor Turner will be remembered as the anthropologist who developed the concept of the ‘social drama', a method used extensively by anthropologists to describe and analyse the social life of a ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Between Theater and Anthropology

    by Richard Schechner, Victor Turner ...
    In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others fascinated (but perhaps terrified) by the multichannel realities of the postmodern world.Schechner ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Between Theater and Anthropology

    by Richard Schechner, Victor Turner ...
    In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others fascinated (but perhaps terrified) by the multichannel realities of the postmodern world.Schechner ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture

    by Edith Turner, Victor Turner ...
    Series series Columbia Classics in Religion
    First published in 1978, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture is a classic work examining the theological doctrines, popular notions, and corresponding symbols and images promoting and sustaining Christian pilgrimage. The book examines two major aspects of pilgrimage practice: the significance of context, or the theological conditions giving rise to pilgrimage and the folk traditions enabling ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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    The Way of the Wind (UNABRIDGED)

    by Zoe Anderson NORRIS ...
    Narrated by Victor Turner ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 58 min

    "From the comfort of the hills of Kentucky traveled Celia and her husband Seth to the desolate prairies of Kansas, where cyclones, tornadoes, and endless wind were to greet them. Always, there was the wind cutting across the plains as the young couple builds their home while working the soil, while Seth awaits the wise men of the east to begin building the magic city where he has staked his ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    The Willow Walk (UNABRIDGED)

    by Sinclair Lewis ...
    Narrated by Victor Turner ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 23 min

    As featured in The Best Short Stories of 1918, The Willow Walk is a trenchant tale of an elaborate heist by a dissolute man who gradually loses his mind in the process. The twist ending also should have won Lewis an O. Henry Award. - Summary by Matt Pierard ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

    by Donald Richie ...
    Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics.This provocative book is a tractate—a treatise—on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that “follow the brush” wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by ... Read more

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  • Performance Theory

    by Richard Schechner ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Few have had quite as much impact in both the academy and in the world of theatre production as Richard Schechner. For more than four decades his work has challenged conventional definitions of theatre, ritual and performance. When this seminal collection first appeared, Schechner's approach was not only novel, it was revolutionary: drama is not just something that occurs on stage, but something ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Beat Haiku

    by Kizen ...
    A study of the impact of the Beat Generation poets on the development of the haiku form, with a focus on the poetry of Ginsberg, Kerouac and Snyder. This ebook looks at the parallels that exist between the original haiku poets and modern western poets.It does this by exploring the nature of beat generation spirituality, and assessing the ways in which the original Japanese haiku has been altered. ... Read more

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