Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)

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).

Title: Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)

Author: Turner, E.

ISBN: 9780230339088

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-02-07

Number of Pages: 258

Weight: 0.3901 kg

A monument to the serial careers of a remarkable anthropological couple. Barbara Tedlock, professor of Anthropology, SUNY Buffalo

Just suppose someone did know just exactly what community is, and how to resolve its complexities by revealing the communitas behind it, that would be Edie Turner, and this book would be the way she does it, for once and for all, and this time for real. Roy Wagner, professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia