Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy by Turner, E.

Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230339057)

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Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy by Turner, E.

Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy

$54.99
Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy by Turner, E.

Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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In this seminal work, Edith Turner extends and investigates the concept of communitas that Victor Turner developed nearly four decades ago. Communitas is inspired fellowship, a group's unexpected joy in sharing common experiences together. Turner argues that communitas is a driving force in history as it operates personally, in religion, in revolution, in all domains of human life. This tour de force views key events through the lens of communitas and establishes by narration and multicultural case studies its fundamental importance to human personal, social, and spiritual well-being. At heart, this is an inspired book, or as Turner writes, a connection among "nature, spirit-energy, and soul."

Author: E. Turner
ISBN-10: 0230339050
ISBN-13: 9780230339057
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2012
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.80d
By E. Turner
By E. Turner
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Edith Turner is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Virginia, USA, specializing in the study of ritual, religion, and consciousness. She has been researching the field of symbol/ritual for nearly 60 years - formerly in collaboration with her husband, renowned anthropologist Victor Turner - and has conducted fieldwork in Zambia, Northern Alaska, rural Ireland, Central and South America, Europe, and Asia. She was editor in chief of the journal, A+nthropology and Humanism, and is author of Heart of Lightness: The Life of an Anthropologist (2006), Among the Healers: Stories of Spiritual and Ritual Healing around the World (2005), and a contributor to Shamanism: A Reader (2003).

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