The Anthropology of Experience

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Victor Witter Turner, Edward M. Bruner
University of Illinois Press, 1986 - Education - 391 pages
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 varied as narrative, literary work, theater, carnival, ritual, reminiscence, and life review. Their studies will be
of special interest for anyone working in anthropological theory, symbolic
anthropology, and contemporary social and cultural anthropology, and useful as well for other social scientists, folklorists, literary theorists, and philosophers.

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Contents

Introduction
3
The Concept of Experience
33
Ordinary and Extraordinary Experience
45
Reflexivity as Evolution in Thoreaus Walden
73
Narrative
97
Ethnography as Narrative
139
Images
159
Performance and the Structuring of Meaning and Experience
188
Symbols Sylphs and Siwa Allegorical Machineries in the Text of Balinese Culture
239
Life Not Death in Venice Its Second Life
261
Enactments
289
Modeled Selves Helen Corderos Little People
316
Magnitudes of Performance
344
Epilogue
373
Notes on Contributors
381
Index
385

Reflexivity
207
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About the author (1986)

Victor Turner was born in Scotland and educated in England. He began his career as a research officer with the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in northern Rhodesia. Best known for his ethnographic studies of ritual and social process among the Ndembu, Turner also produced significant theoretical insights about rites of passage, the psychology of healing, conflict management, the importance of drama and play, and the theory of symbolic interpretation. He spent much of his career at universities in the United States and was among the leading figures in the turn to symbolic interpretation that marked American anthropology during the 1960s and 1970s.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Anthropology of Experience
EditorsVictor Witter Turner, Edward M. Bruner
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press, 1986
ISBN0252012496, 9780252012495
Length391 pages
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Education / General
Psychology / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Anthropology / General
  
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