695. Turner, V.W. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1967.
An introduction to Turner's concepts of liminality and communitas.
696. ———. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldine, 1969a.
The source for Turner's ideas of liminality and communitas: the states of anti-structure, in which rules are suspended in the intervals between periods of ordinary structure.
697. ———. "Forms of Symbolic Action: Introduction." In Forms of Symbolic Action: Proceedings of the 1969 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society edited by Victor Turner. Seattle, 1969b.
A survey of studies of ritual and symbol, with particular reference to work in ethology and its implications for the study of human systems. Turner makes the cogent observation that in human societies innovation in these areas is nearly always the work of outsiders and that studies of marginal movements have much to tell us about this process.
698. ———. Dramas, Fields and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society . Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1974.
The concept of communitas is worked out in detail here.
699. ———. Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1975.
[From the introduction] Revelation is "a prehension of experience taken as a whole." It begins with basic mythic themes and metaphors, connected in a symbol-set in such a way as to provide a complete view of the cosmos. Divination, by contrast, exposes individual sins and feelings that disturb the harmonic flow of society and hence creation.
700. ———. "Body, Brain and Culture." Zygon 18, September 1983: 221-45.
Creative processes may result from "a coadaptationÊ...Êof genetic and cultural information." "Division of labor" between brain hemispheres appears to have implications for theories of play [and ritual].
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