Jacob Buchholz marked it as to-read Aug 29, Hence Turner explicitly avoids to impose any other framework on her diverse ethnographic material than associations between the stories and the scenes connecting them. Cookie marked it as to-read Jul 13, Robert rated it liked it Nov 24, Refresh and try again.
How do we discuss ongoing problems that threaten to shred the global social fabric and bring widespread social, political and economic chaos. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Remember me on this computer. This evocative collection aims to discover instances of communitas in their immense variety. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website.
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Ally marked it as to-read Jul 01, May 31, Daisy Rojas rated it it was amazing. Although the ethnographic validity of people helping each other during floods and feeling that it was anthropollogy event of close social relationships is unquestionable, reducing mutual help to an overwhelming feeling of togetherness, failing to address the inescapably political nature of the presence of relief personnel make communitas a concept unfortunately lacking explanatory potential.
The last two chapters return to less politically connotated themes, nature and rites of passage. Anjana rated it really liked it Aug 08, Jul 21, Heather G rated it liked it. Here Edie tapped into something extraordinarily significant: Turner establishes by narration and multicultural case studies the fundamental importance of communitas to human personal, social, and spiritual well-being. Cillective marked it as to-read Jun 19, Eva marked it as to-read Jun 05, Anthropologist Edith Turner passed away recently and so I read this book to learn more about her work.
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Barton Parks rated it it was amazing Jan 02, It is a model for reaching our students and extending to the public our important insights about social life. During a curing ceremony among the Ndembu people, the religious rituals of whom the Turners cpmmunitas in a series of classic books, Edie learned about the importance of understanding Ndembu rituals in Ndembu terms. Lily Jamaludin marked it as to-read Nov 19, Sonora marked it as to-read Jan 10, Anthropologist Edith Turner passed away recently and so I read this book to learn more about her work.
Emmy Martina rated it really liked it Mar 30, Marjoke is currently reading it Sep 16, Ashley Newton marked it as to-read Jan 11, The Anthropology of Collective Joywhich she published in when she was in her early nineties.
May 31, Daisy Rojas rated it it was amazing. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. This inherently political, but rather reductive presentation of the acts of politically inspired crowds can at best lead to blurred, ethnographically thin accounts, but at worst it can lead to serious ethical and epistemological problems. In her book Experiencing Ritual Edie wrote about opening herself to the sensibilities of the Ndembu world. Turner shows how communitas is a driving force in history as it operates personally, in.
As such communitas shows us the way to an arena in which we can sometimes experience a rare feeling: Although anthrropology ethnographic validity of people helping each other during floods communihas feeling that it was an event of close social relationships is unquestionable, reducing mutual help to an overwhelming feeling of togetherness, failing to address the inescapably political nature of anthropoligy presence of relief personnel make communitas a concept unfortunately lacking explanatory potential.
Turner establishes by narration and multicultural case studies the fundamental importance of communitas to human personal, social, and spiritual well-being.
The characteristics of communitas show it collectiive be almost beyond strict definition, with almost endless variations. Robert rated it liked it Nov 24, Lists with This Book. It is grounded in lived events, and com,unitas occur as the climax to a process that takes people from violence to shared intimate transcendence. Peace marked it as to-read Jun 25, She was the mother of the professor who developed my masters program.
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