Format:
1 Online-Ressource (309 Seiten)
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Karten
ISBN:
9781501732843
Series Statement:
Symbol, myth and ritual series
Content:
In 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 certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new paradigms are generated. To describe and clarify these processes, he ranges widely in history and geography: from ancient society through the medieval period to modern revolutions, and over India, Africa, Europe, China, and Meso-America.Two chapters, which illustrate religious paradigms and political action, explore in detail the confrontation between Henry II and Thomas Becket and between Hidalgo, the Mexican liberator, and his former friends. Other essays deal with long-term religious processes, such as the Christian pilgrimage in Europe and the emergence of anti-caste movements in India. Finally, he directs his attention to other social phenomena such as transitional and marginal groups, hippies, and dissident religious sects, showing that in the very process of dying they give rise to new forms of social structure or revitalized versions of the old order
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
Elektronische Reproduktion Turner, Victor, 1920-1983 Dramas, fields, and metaphors Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1975 ISBN 0-8014-9151-7
Language:
English
Keywords:
Symbol
;
Gesellschaft
;
Mythos
;
Gesellschaft
;
Religion
;
Gesellschaft
;
Ritual
;
Gesellschaft
;
Kultursoziologie
;
Symbolischer Interaktionismus
DOI:
10.7591/9781501732843
URL:
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Author information:
Turner, Victor 1920-1983
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