Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance

By: Graham St John (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 April 2008

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In the twenty years following Victor Turner s death,
interventions on the interconnected performance modes of
play, drama, and community (dimensions of which Turner
deemed the limen), and experimental and analytical forays
into the anthropologies of experience and consciousness,
have complemented and extended Turnerian readings on the
moments and sites of culture s becoming. Examining Turner
s continued relevance in performance and popular culture,
pilgrimage and communitas, as well as Edith Turner s
role, the contributors reflect on the wide application of
Victor Turner s thought to cultural performance in the
early twenty-first century and explore how Turner s ideas
have been re-engaged, renovated, and repurposed in
studies of contemporary cultural performance.

Industry Reviews

"This collection of writings dedicated to the Turners may sometimes contest the validity and morality of 'feelings and desires', but St John gives these elusive possibilities an enduring stage for becoming. Could the volume be conceived as an academic fissure inciting change?" · Australasian Drama Studies

"An impressive selection of analyses conducted through diverse disciplinary lenses (including media and communication, sociology, religion, and anthropology) explicates the need for a revival of Turner's multifaceted theory." · The Canadian Review of Sociology

"This volume is a wonderful exercise in rethinking Turner through the lens of our increasingly digitalized and mediatized world. . . . The introduction by St John alone is worth the price of the book. Dense with the jargon of scholarship, freshly minted phrases, theoretical labels, and esoteric framings, as it need be to describe the work of Turner, who made a prodigious impact across a spectrum of disciplines." · JRAI

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Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance: An Introduction
Toward a Unified Theory of Cultural Performance: A Reconstructive Introduction to Victor Turner	p. 41
The Ritualization of Performance (Studies)	p. 59
Performing "Sorry Business": Reconciliation and Redressive Action
Liminality in Media Studies: From Everyday Life to Media Events	p. 94
Social Drama in a Mediatized World: The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence	p. 109
Modern Sports: Liminal Ritual or Liminoid Leisure?	p. 127
Trance Tribes a nd Dance Vibes : Victor Turner and Electronic Dance Music Culture	p. 149
Backpacking as a Contemporary Rite of Passage: Victor Turner and Youth Travel Practices	p. 174
Walking to Hill End with Victor Turner: A Theater-Making Immersion Event	p. 190
Of Ordeals and Operas: Reflexive Ritualizing at the Burning Man Festival	p. 211
"Shopping For A Self': Pilgrimage, Identity-Formation, and Retail Therapy	p. 227
Turner Meets Gandhi: Pilgrimage, Ritual and the Diffusion of Nonviolent Direct Action	p. 242
Dramas, Fields, and "Appropriate Education":The Ritual Process, Contestation, and Cornrnunitas for Parents of Special-Needs Children	p. 258
An Interview with Edith Turner	p. 275
Woman/women in "the Discourse of Man"; Edie Turner and Victor Turner's Language of the Feminine	p. 297
Faith and Social Science: Contrasting Victor and Edith Turner's Analyses of Spiritual Realities	p. 309
Challenging the Boundaries of Experience, Performance, and Consciousness; Edith Turner's Contributions to the Turnerian Project	p. 324
Select Bibliography	p. 344
Index	p. 351
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