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Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture by Victor Turner
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.91First published in 1978 and hailed by Culture as constituting "an important foreshadowing of issues that have become prominent in more recent anthropology," this classic book, now updated and... -
Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture by Victor Turner 9780231157902
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $190.61First published in 1978, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture is a classic work examining the theological doctrines, popular notions, and corresponding symbols and images promoting and... -
Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture by Victor Turner 9780231157919
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.49First published in 1978, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture is a classic work examining the theological doctrines, popular notions, and corresponding symbols and images promoting and... -
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.83In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute... -
Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual by Victor Turner 9780801491580
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $47.44Drawing on two and a half years of field work, Victor Turner offers two thorough ethnographic studies of Ndembu revelatory ritual and divinatory techniques, with running commentaries on symbolism by... -
The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual by Victor Turner 9780801491016
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $38.98A collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. These papers by Victor Turner... are all seminal and distinguished. American Anthropologist A pioneering work... -
See How We Roll: Enduring Exile between Desert and Urban Australia by Melinda Hinkson
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $31.94In See How We Roll Melinda Hinkson follows the experiences of Nungarrayi, a Warlpiri woman from the Central Australian desert, as she struggles to establish a new life for herself in the city of... -
Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity by David McDermott Hughes
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.74In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and... -
See How We Roll: Enduring Exile between Desert and Urban Australia by Melinda Hinkson 9781478013846
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $129.60In See How We Roll Melinda Hinkson follows the experiences of Nungarrayi, a Warlpiri woman from the Central Australian desert, as she struggles to establish a new life for herself in the city of... -
Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance Graham St John 9781845454623
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $183.79Upon the 25th anniversary of his passing, this collection addresses the wide application of Victor Turner's thought to cultural performance in the early 21st century. From anthropology, sociology,... -
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society by Victor Turner 9780801491511
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $33.62In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in... -
Victor Turner Revisited: Ritual as Social Change by Bobby Chris Alexander 9781555406011
Booksplease Price: $101.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555406011Author Bobby Chris AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Scholars PressPublisher... -
Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life Victor Turner 9780854962822
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82With a new foreword by Bruce Kapferer, Professor of Anthropology, James Cook University- A reprint of the seminal anthropological work of the 1960s. Originally published by Manchester University... -
Egalitarian Dynamics: Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process by Bruce Kapferer 9781805395881
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $183.20Liminality: the state of being ‘betwixt and between’ is one of anthropology’s most influential concepts. This volume reconsiders Victor Turner’s innovative extension of Arnold Van Gennep’s concept... -
Experiential and Performative Anthropology in the Classroom: Engaging the Legacy of Edith and Victor Turner by Pamela R. Frese 9783030419943
Booksplease Price: $98.98The contributors gathered here revitalize "ethnographic performance"-the performed recreation of ethnographic subject matter pioneered by Victor and Edith Turner and Richard Schechner-as a... -
Experiential and Performative Anthropology in the Classroom: Engaging the Legacy of Edith and Victor Turner by Pamela R. Frese 9783030419974
Booksplease Price: $98.98The contributors gathered here revitalize "ethnographic performance"-the performed recreation of ethnographic subject matter pioneered by Victor and Edith Turner and Richard Schechner-as a... -
The Intellectual Legacy of Victor and Edith Turner by Frank A. Salamone 9781498582209
Booksplease Price: $158.87In 2016, Edith Turner passed away. She left behind an intellectual legacy that, together with her husband, Victor Turner, transformed modern anthropology. This edited collection focuses on Victor and... -
Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History Mark Moberg 9781032533629
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $89.56The updated third edition of this book scrutinizes anew the history of anthropological theory. Covering key concepts and theorists in a lively style, Engaging Anthropological Theory examines the... -
Frontiers in American Religion: Myth, Technology, and the Making of a Pioneering People Nicholas Covaleski 9781666975536
Booksplease Price: $168.54Frontiers in American Religion explores how certain religious dimensions of North America's settler colonial past, expressed and encoded in frontier religion, continue to affect its cultural present,... -
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Liminality and "Communitas" in the Beat Generation by Aaron Christopher Mitchell 9783631727690
RRP: $125.87Booksplease Price: $112.32The Beat Generation questioned mid-twentieth century America and sought the margins of society. This book analyzes the literature and lifestyles of the Beat authors Jack Kerouac, William S... -
Young, Woke, Christian: Voices of the Missing Generation by Victoria Turner 9780334061533
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $29.50Young people are often referred to as the church's 'missing generation'. But perhaps it is not them that are missing from God's mission, but the church itself. 'Young, Woke and Christian' brings... -
Awake, Emerging, and Connected: Meditations on Justice from a Missing Generation Victoria Turner 9780334065432
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.89Millennials and Gen Zers have been characterized as individualistic capitalist consumers, as politically unengaged and spiritually selfish, or only interested in identity politics. This edited... -
Theorizing Medieval Race: Saracen Representations in Old French Literature by Victoria Turner 9781781886687
Booksplease Price: $23.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781886687Author Victoria TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint LegendaPublisher... -
Theorizing Medieval Race: Saracen Representations in Old French Literature by Victoria Turner 9781781886670
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $147.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781886670Author Victoria TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Modern Humanities Research... -
Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia by Susan Helen Ellison
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79In Domesticating Democracy Susan Helen Ellison examines foreign-funded alternate dispute resolution (ADR) organizations that provide legal aid and conflict resolution to vulnerable citizens in El... -
Domesticating Democracy: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia by Susan Helen Ellison 9780822370932
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $175.31In Domesticating Democracy Susan Helen Ellison examines foreign-funded alternate dispute resolution (ADR) organizations that provide legal aid and conflict resolution to vulnerable citizens in El... -
Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality: Mind the Gap by Zohar Hadromi-Allouche 9781793644893
Booksplease Price: $188.47Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality: Mind the Gap offers an interdisciplinary thinking on "the marginal" within society. Using the framework of Victor Turner's earlier notions of... -
Urs Fischer: Anti-Structure by Urs Fischer 9786185039424
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97Using Victor Turner's theory of states of limbo, Anti-Structure approaches an event horizon based on Urs Fischer's gravity-defying sculptures Named after a term coined by anthropologist Victor... -
Do This: Liturgy as Performance by Richard D. McCall
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Dramatic elements have always been apparent in the historic Christian liturgy. Because the liturgy is a structured action and not merely a verbal narrative, it has historically been both illuminated... -
Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being by Naisargi N. Davé 9781478020158
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $127.12In Indifference, Naisargi N. DavE examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal activists, farmers, laborers,... -
Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm by Alex Blanchette
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $37.09In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In Porkopolis Alex... -
The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos by Angela Garcia 9780374605780
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $34.87The Way That Leads Among the Lost reveals a hidden place where care and violence are impossible to separate: the anexos of Mexico City. The prizewinning anthropologist Angela Garcia takes us deep... -
Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05In Experiments in Skin Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the ongoing influence of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty. Framing skin as the site around which these ideas have been... -
Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement by Simon Coleman
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.31A groundbreaking reframing of religious pilgrimage Pious processions. Sites of miraculous healing. Journeys to far-away sacred places. These are what are usually called to mind when we think of... -
The Anthropology of Cultural Performance by L. Lewis 9781349465927
Booksplease Price: $90.25Contemporary life in most nation-states is not truly cultural, but rather "culture-like," especially in large-scale societies. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life,... -
Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking Arpad Szakolczai (University College Cork, Ireland) 9781138214491
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the experience of being human, including a comparative study of the language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail, relying... -
Community: 3rd edition Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex, UK) 9781138068148
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42The increasing atomization of modern society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and belonging in an increasingly insecure world. Far from... -
Performance Studies: An Introduction Richard Schechner (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, USA) 9781138284562
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $79.81Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global... -
The Paper Nautilus by Michael Jackson 9781988531793
RRP: $37.05Booksplease Price: $29.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lifetime Achievement Award, The Society for Humanist Anthropology 2012. Runner-up for Montana Book Awards... -
Ritual Practices in Congregational Identity Formation by Timothy D. Son 9780739183106
Booksplease Price: $220.56Ritual Practices in Congregational Identity Formation investigates the educational roles of ritual practices in the process of congregational identity formation. Son identifies and analyzes various...