The papers of Victor Witter Turner.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Turner, Victor W. (Victor Witter), 1920-1983.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ndembu (African people).

Zambia--Social life and customs.

Zambia.

Turner, Victor W. (Victor Witter), 1920-1983--Manuscripts.

Turner, Victor W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Production:

[1950-1970]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Victor Turner and Edith Turner's fieldwork with the Ndembu in the former Northern Rhodesia led to Turner's ethnography "Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of a Ndembu Village Life", and to later theoretical works such as "The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure" and "Dramas, Fields and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society". His fieldwork was instrumental in shaping later theoretical work on symbols, rites of passage and ritual, which gave rise to concepts such as liminality, a state of being "in between" through which individuals pass at transitional periods of life often bounded by rituals or rites of passage. Together with his wife, Edith Turner, he took anthropology into hitherto neglected areas of study. The Victor Turner Papers (privately held): The collection include the Turners' research in the former Northern Rhodesia with the Ndembu between 1950 and 1954, as well as lectures, articles and draft manuscripts that subsequently followed.

Notes:

Full online collection includes over 5,000 pages of field notes, field photos and early manuscript drafts.

Title from resource description page (viewed May 17, 2016).

Digitized content includes: Box 1: Field Notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia, 1950-1952 -- Box 2: Field Notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia, 1950-1952 -- Box 3: Field Notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia, Second Trip, April 1953-May 1954 -- Box 4: Field Notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia, Second Trip, April 1953-May 1954 -- Box 5: Draft Manuscripts -- Box 6: Draft Manuscripts -- Box 7: Field Photographs -- Box 8: Field Photographs -- Box 9: Field Photographs.

Related Collections:

Original copies privately held by Edith Turner.

OCLC:

950030607