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Victor Witter Turner (28 May 1920 – 18 December 1983) was a British cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals, and rites of passage. His work, along with that of Clifford Geertz and others, is often referred to as symbolic and interpretive anthropology .
Turner, "Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage", in The Forest of Symbols Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1967 Turner, Victor Witter. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-structure .
Turner, Victor (1967). "Betwixt and between: the liminal period in rites de passage". Forest of symbols: aspects of the Ndembu ritual. Ithaca: Cornell UP. pp. 23– 59. Turner, Victor W. (1969). The Ritual Process. Penguin. Van Gennep, Arnold (1909). Les rites de passage (in French). Paris: Émile Nourry. Frederick Starr (March 1910). "Les ...
Wherein the initiated are "betwixt and between". Victor Turner argued that this stage is marked by liminality , a condition of ambiguity or disorientation in which initiates have been stripped of their old identities, but have not yet acquired their new one.
By extension, liminal beings of a mixed, hybrid nature appear regularly in myth, legend and fantasy. A legendary liminal being is a legendary creature that combines two distinct states of simultaneous existence within one physical body.
Charges against Victor Lee Turner and Megan Lee Turner, who were arrested in January and charged in the 1989 cold case death of Justin Lee Turner, Victor’s son, were dropped by the judge in the ...
The Year Without a Santa Claus, a Christmas special from Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., turns 50 this December. The beloved special was adapted from the book of the same name by Phyllis ...
Victor Turner said he was at work that morning, Justin’s body was not found in the initial search of the camper. About 100 officers turned out two days later to scour the property surrounding ...