Terence Turner

Biographic Data

ID200
NAMETerence Turner
GIVEN NAMESTerence
FAMILY NAMETurner
SIGNATURETURNER T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Chicago
ORCID0000-0002-5378-3593
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS52
TOTAL CITATIONS840
AUTHOR COUNT52
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX12

  • Beauty and the beast

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLEHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory2017Cited by: 5References: 5

    This paper describes the notion of "beauty" as a socially constructed value among the Kayapo of the Brazilian Amazon and how this value reflects relations within society and between humans and animals. Kayapo society is divided into two status groups, people who have received beautiful names from certain kin during elaborate village rituals, and those who have not. The ritual bestowal of such names counteracts fissive tendencies produced through …

  • Da Cosmologia à História

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLECadernos de Campo (São Paulo 19912014Cited by: 11

    Traduzido de:TURNER,Terrence. 1987. "From cosmology to history: resistance, adaptation and social consciousness among the Kayapo". Trabalho apresentado na reunião da ABA Associação Brasileira de Antropologia, Belém do Para. tradutor: DAVID SOARESrevisão técnica: SYLVIA CAIUBY NOVAES, HELOISA BUARQUE DE ALMEIDA

  • Remote and edgy

    Open AccessE Harms, Shafqat Hussain et al.ARTICLEHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory2014Cited by: 29References: 18

    Eight anthropologists working in various parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America reflect on an essay by Edwin Ardener on the concept of remote areas recently reprinted in Hau(Volume 2, Issue 1). These reflections all show that the idea of the remote can be detached from its geographical moorings and understood not simply as a spatial concept but as a relativistic social construct. Considered in conjunction with the notion of edginess, they under…

  • The social skin

    Open AccessTerence Turner, Terence S TurnerARTICLEHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory2012Cited by: 76

    Previous article FreeThe social skinTerence S. TurnerTerence S. TurnerCornell University Search for more articles by this author Cornell UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull TextEPUBMOBI Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreMan is born naked but is everywhere in clothes (or their symbolic equivalents). We cannot tell how this came to be, but we can say something ab…

  • Commentaries on “Knowledge and Empire

    L Gill, Terence Turner et al.ARTICLEIdentities2010Cited by: 1References: 3

  • The Practice of Human Rights

    Terence TurnerARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2009

  • Marxian value theory

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLEAnthropological Theory2008Cited by: 51References: 3

    Marx's critique of political economy and analysis of the capitalist mode of production are grounded in more general ideas about human activity and social organization that, taken together, constitute an anthropology which is applicable in principle to all social systems and forms of social production, including those that do not involve the production and exchange of commodities. Marx's anthropology is built upon general notions of production, ne…

  • Indigenous resurgence, anthropological theory, and the cunning of history

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLEFocaal2007Cited by: 6References: 2

    Why has the recent period of global centralization of capital, from the 1970s to the present, also been a period of resurgence of indigenous movements and of forms of global civil society that have supported indigenous rights? This article argues that tackling this question can only be done by using concepts that emphasize what Hegel called the 'cunning' of history: the fact that the same historical process can on the one hand bring devastation t…

  • Political innovation and inter-ethnic alliance

    Open AccessTerence Turner, Vanessa Fajans‐turner et al.ARTICLEAnthropology Today2006Cited by: 17References: 3

  • Death, Passion and Politics

    Terence TurnerARTICLEReviews in Anthropology2005References: 2

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsTERENCE TURNERTERENCE TURNER is a Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. He has worked with the Kayapo of Central Brazil since 1962, and continues to do so; in all he has made 17 trips, the last in November 2003. His numerous writings on the Kayapo cover social organization, myth, ritual, history, politics, interethnic contact, and aspects of cultural, social, political, and ideological change.…

  • Dialogue on the Referendum to Rescind the AAA's Acceptance of the El Dorado Task Force Report

    Open AccessDouglas Raybeck, J Watkins et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2005

  • Representation,Polyphony, and the Construction of Power in a Kayapó Video

    Terence TurnerCHAPTERIndigenous Movements, Self-Represen…2003

  • The Beautiful and the Common

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLE1700-tal: Nordic Journal for…2003

    This paper addresses the nature of hierarchy in indigenous Amazonian and Central Brazilian societies. It takes as its point of departure an analysis of the production and distribution of social value among the Kayapó, considered as representative of the Gê and similar societies like the Mundurucú, Tapirapé, Karajá, and Bororo. This analysis proceeds from the proposition that “production” in such societies is primarily organized as the process of …

  • Shifting the Frame from Nation-State to Global Market

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLESocial Analysis2002

    This paper examines the relationship between the globalization of capital, changes in class structure, and the development of new forms of social consciousness. ‘Globalization’ is not a new historical phenomenon, as many scholars have pointed out. There have been repeated episodes of global expansion in the history of capitalism, followed by periods of contraction or near collapse, and as Friedman and numerous others have properly insisted, episo…

  • The American anthropological association, the World Bank group, and Endesa S.A

    Barbara Rose Johnston, Barbara Johnston et al.ARTICLEIdentities1999

    (1999). The American anthropological association, the World Bank group, and ENDESA S.A.: Violations of human rights in the pangue and ralco dam projects on the Bío‐Bío river, Chile. Identities: Vol. 6, Ethnographic Presence: Environmentalism, Indigenous Rights, and Transnational Cultural Critique, pp. 387-434

  • Extrativismo mineral por e para comunidades indígenas da Amazônia

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLECadernos de Campo (São Paulo 19911998

  • Sanuma Memories

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1998Cited by: 1

    Sanuma Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in Times of Crisis. Alcida Rita Ramos. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. xx. 346 pp., notes, index

  • Human Rights, Human Difference

    Terence TurnerARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research1997Cited by: 17

    The concept of universal cultural features or principles is not in itself incompatible with some forms of cultural relativism, but the idea of universal human rights poses special problems. "Rights," in the specific sense, cannot be universal attributes of "humanity," as anthropologically conceived, but general principles of right or justice may be so. Anthropology may be able to provide knowledge of universal attributes of humanity with ethical …

  • Introduction

    Carole Nagengast, Terence TurnerARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research1997Cited by: 9

  • The World Bank in Brazil

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLEAnthropology News1996

  • Committee for Human Rights Responds

    Open AccessTom Greaves, R K Hitchcock et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News1996

  • An Indigenous People's Struggle for Socially Equitable and Ecologically Sustainable Production

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLEJournal of Latin American…1995

    Over the past decade, some leaders of the Kayapo enriched themselves granting concessions to Brazilian minors and loggers to operate Kayapo land. In late 1994, the Gorotire Kayapo revolted against the mining concession granted; soon other Kayapo communities, supported by the Federal Police/joined them expelling mines and loggers from their areas. The Kayapo are now developing alternative, environmentally sustainable sources of income. This histor…

  • An Indigenous People's Struggle for Socially Equitable and Ecologically Sustainable Production

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLEJournal of Latin American…1995

  • Representation, Collaboration and Mediation In Contemporary Ethnographic and Indigenous Media

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review1995Cited by: 26References: 5

  • The Cultural Environment of Development

    Open AccessTerence TurnerARTICLENAPA Bulletin1995