Edith Turner

Dados Biográficos

ID3617172
NOMEEdith Turner
PRENOMESEdith
SOBRENOMETurner
ASSINATURATURNER E
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Virginia
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS68
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES212
TOTAL COMO AUTOR68
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1979
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2021
ÍNDICE H7

  • Beyond the Human Horizon

    Open AccessAmira Mittermaier, J Bialecki et al.ARTICLEReligion and Society2021Citada por: 24Referências: 51

    Amid a moment of crisis, how might the anthropology of religion shift its focus from ethics to politics? This 2021 Rappaport Lecture, delivered at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Meeting on 15 May 2021, begins by highlighting three ways in which our field has taken on politics in recent years: by troubling the distinction between ethics and politics, by thinking religion together with pressing political issues, and by …

  • Excerpt from “Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage”

    Victor Turner, Edith TurnerCHAPTERAnthropology of Catholicism2019

  • Postscript

    Open AccessEdith TurnerCHAPTERAnimism beyond the Soul2018

  • Bar Yohai, Mystic

    Open AccessEdith TurnerCHAPTERCreativity/Anthropology2018

    The existence of a creative persona may involve a root metaphor embodied in a string of other individuals living in eras prior or sub sequent to the persona in question. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai-as Moroccan Jews call him-was a second-century saint revered by the Sephardim and Hasids. The root metaphor he represents is zohar, meaning splendor or enlightenment. Popular belief attributes to Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai the authorship of The Zahar, the renow…

  • Excerpt from “Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage”

    Victor Turner, Edith TurnerCHAPTERAnthropology of Catholicism2017

    Before he died, the well-known anthropologist of African religion Victor Turner (1920–83) turned his attention to Catholic forms of pilgrimage and, with Edith Turner, traveled across the world visiting Marian shrines. Victor and Edith Turner were themselves Catholic. The book that resulted is a classic of early anthropological writing about Catholicism and has done much to lay down an analytical “grammar” for thinking about it. In this chapter th…

  • Anthropologists and Healers

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLESocial Analysis2016Referências: 7

    This postscript presents the living ethnography of the work of a 'psychic' individual from northern Alaska who recognized her own gift and was aware of her marked position in society due to her possession of second sight. Such people occur freely among all societies. My study gives the record and the testimony of Claire Sevukaq in 1987 from among the Iupiaq people. 1 Based on Claire's account, it will be seen that these people spend their whole w…

  • The Spirituality of Africa

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness2015Citada por: 1Referências: 7

    The article shows some moving occasions during the first fieldwork of Victor Turner and myself in Africa during the 1950s. For instance, the Ndembu people would always give great welcomes to their returning kin after long absences. The scenes are etched on my mind as a blueprint for all welcomes. On their friends return, the villagers would immediately gather and sing the simple song, "You're back, you're back!" Why did the people so much value e…

  • Communitas

    Open AccessEdith TurnerBOOKCommunitas2012

    Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone' - as in music, sport, and work; the sense felt by a group when their life together takes on ful

  • Communitas

    Edith TurnerBOOKCommunitas2012

  • Conclusion

    Open AccessEdith TurnerCHAPTERCommunitas2012

    The richness, the naturally occurring communitas described by Turner implies an open readiness without preconceived ideas. There is a democracy and humility about communitas: no one can claim it as their own. In 1996 in Africa, the anthropologist Roy Willis saw this with his own eyes and experienced the permeability of the human soul. It took place in a ritual where the Lungu people of Zambia had gathered to cure a sick woman. The woman sat among…

  • The Paradox of Victor Turner's Poetry

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism2012Citada por: 2

  • “This Is My Profession”—Changes in African Ritual Consciousness over Thirty‐One Years

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism2011

    In this article, I point out significant changes in the field of Ndembu ritual after a gap of 31 years, 1954 until 1985—when I returned to Zambia. I depict rituals for spirit affliction, first in 1954, and later in 1985. In the 1954 era, many other adepts used to join with the main patient in trance. The success of such rituals was about 1 in 4. In 1985 the story tells of but one medicine man, Kabwita, dressed in traditional garb. Kabwita was pro…

  • Spam and Pop‐Tarts? Joint Response to Anthropology and Tourism

    Open AccessDaisy Stevens Rojas, Edith TurnerARTICLEAnthropology News2011

    tourism industry, cultural tourism, tourism exploitation, tourism impact, tourism economy

  • Exploring the Work of Victor Turner

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLESuomen Antropologi Journal of the…2008Citada por: 4Referências: 8

    Victor Turner broke anthropology free from cultural determinism when it was anchored in the reductionist theories of Durkheim. Like Tolstoy in his recognition of the origin of violence in government, Turner recognized the origin of the denaturing of cultures in culture's own penchant for the building of social structures in order to perpetuate itself. He saw in the cracks between structures, and in the liminal gaps necessary for changes in struct…

  • Introduction to the Art of Ethnography

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism2007

    The most human side of anthropology is its ethnography, that is, the significant facts an anthropologist gives about a culture, the living events that the researcher needs to relate to convey how that culture works. Where the researcher's participation in the culture has been vigorous and full, the style of ethnography is often magnificent. This article discusses two kinds of writing, the kind that our field friends would themselves appreciate an…

  • Heart of Lightness

    Edith TurnerBOOKHeart of Lightness2006

    This fascinating memoir is a lively testimony to a remarkable partnership and to Edie Turner's own achievements during more than two decades after Victor's untimely death.

  • Heart Of Lightness

    Edith TurnerBOOKHeart of Lightness2006

  • Intimations of Immortality

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism2006

    The most common experience of a spirit is that of the dead—a parent, lover, relative, friend, or mentor. Many people in my countries of fieldwork who have been bereaved have described how the dead came back to help or comfort them as they struggled with their grief. The sense of the presence of a spirit is far from rare. I myself have had that experience five times. In all these cases, the people themselves do not cause the visitation. It is as i…

  • Heart of Lightness

    Edith L B Turner, Edith Turner et al.BOOKHeart of Lightness2006Citada por: 5

    Edith and Victor Turner were among the most influential researchers and teachers and social and cultural anthropology in the twentieth century. Together they, and Edie alone after Vic's death, raised the idea of participant observation (and indeed of team learning) to heights and depth most anthropologists never achieve." [From the Foreword] This fascinating memoir is a lively testimony to a remarkable partnership and to Edie Turner's own achieve…

  • Advances in the Study of Spirit Experience

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLEAnthropology of Consciousness2006Citada por: 7Referências: 29

    This article traces some important changes in anthropology during the last 100 years, especially with regard to the study of consciousness. Vignettes of the field material of a number of scholars given here exemplify that the philosophy under which we have studied in the past is now no longer limiting itself but is extending its provenance all the way to the study of spirituality. Earlier, the concept of liminality broke through social anthropolo…

  • From the “Permeable Rocks” of Field Material to Living Story

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism2005

  • From the "Permeable Rocks" of Field Material to Living Story

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLEAnthropology and Humanism Quarterly2005

  • Changes in the Writing of Anthropology

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLEAnthropology News2005

  • Anthropology, fieldwork and belief

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLEAnthropology Today2003

  • The Lunda-Ndembu

    Open AccessEdith TurnerARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2002Citada por: 3

    The Lunda-Ndembu: Style, Change, and Social Transformation in South Central Africa. James A. Pritchett. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 377 pp