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Victor Turner
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Saturday, August 30, 2025
From Symbolic Anthropology to Digital Rituals: ‘Body Ritual among the Nacirema’ Revisited
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In 1956, Horace Miner published a short anthropological essay that continues to surface in classrooms, syllabi, and internet searches alike:...
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Victor Turner and Symbolic Anthropology: Rituals, Symbols, and Social Transformation
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Victor Turner (1920–1983) was one of the most influential anthropologists of the 20th century, pioneering the study of symbolic anthropology...
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Binary Oppositions in Anthropology - summary
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De Saussure's linguistic theory led Claude Levi-Strauss , an anthropologist-structuralist who worked during the 20th century, to ident...
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Victor Turner on Liminality and communitas –Summary and Analysis
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Anthropologist Victor Turner made a huge contribution to anthropology by reintroducing the concept of "liminality" into the an...
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