Drums Affliction Study Religious Processes by Turner (44 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1968/1981. Africa. Cornell University Press. Good paperback with wear along the edges of covers, pen underlining in introduction only. Otherwise tight binding.326p. 10/23.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Non-returnable. Scattered pencil marks in text. Dust jacket slightly shelf rubbed, spine sunned. Some wear to top edge. A solid reading copy. From the library of Herbert S. Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with his name stamp on front flyleaf.…

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (Ndembu, Zambia, Religion, Ethnology) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 326pp. Blue cloth hardback, DJ has small chips and tears along edges and spine edge faded, owner name ink stamped on upper page edge, index, appendices, bibliography, footnotes, b&w photos, Case study of ritual performances in the life of a single village community.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Book has minor shelving wear to the edges and corners with minor rubbing to the covers. Two matching reading creases can be seen running down the spine. Aside from the items listed this is a good, very sharp copy that remains well-bound with bright pages that are crisp and unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Top 1 inch of the front endpaper is cut away otherwise Fine in a Near Fine jacket. 2nd Printing. 326pp 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. DUST JACKET. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. 326 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. Owner's name / date front end paper. Some fading from dark red to lighter red on spine of dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-library reserve stock and presumably never issued as in VG clean and bright internal order throughout, bar a coupe of accidental corner folds. Nevertheless various library labels etc at front and rear, so rated 'good' thus. Smart blue boards with bright gilt tilting showing some light surface marking and white accession number to spine. 8vo. 326pp.…

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0091437210.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. Book Condition: Very Good with minimal shelf wear marks and slight tropical speckling to Page Edges. Otherwise, clean, clear text in tightly bound volume. No internal inscriptions, markings or other stains. xiii, 326 p. 13 plates, illus., tables, map. 23 cm. Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1 inches. Weight: 14.1 ounces. While at Stanford University, Victor Turner wrote The Drums of Affliction: A Study of Religious Processes among the Ndembu (1968). Turner shared the view that social order depends on rituals and ceremonial performances with Emile Durkheim. And he followed Edward Sapir's lead in asserting that culture is a "changing entity, influenced by 'root paradigms,' that is, by axiomatic frames, or deep myths, that propel and transform people and groups at critical moments" Turner agreed with Freud that studying disturbances in patterns offers better insight than does observing normal conditions. He found Kurt Lewin's notion of "social fields" useful in his processual models as was Alfred Schutz' phenomenological sociology which suggested that culture was a constantly negotiated set of meanings. In his dissertation, published as Schism and Continuity in African Society (1957), he introduced the concept of social dramas, which he elaborated on in later works. Social dramas exist as a result of the conflict that is inherent in societies. Social dramas are the "public episodes of tensional irruption" (1974:33). He also refers to them as "units of aharmonic or disharmonic process, arising in conflict situations" (1974:37). Based on his fieldwork among the Ndembu, Turner (1974) asserted that social dramas have "four main phases of public action, accessible to observation" (p. 38). The phases are breach, crisis, redressive action, and reintegration. The first phase is "signalized by the public, overt breach or deliberate nonfulfillment of some crucial norm regulating the intercourse of the parties" (ibid.). Once a breach occurs "a phase of mounting crisis supervenes" in which the breach widens and extends the separation between the parties. The crisis stage has "liminal characteristics, since it is a threshold between more or less stable phases of the social process" (Turner, 1974:39). The third phase of redressive action occurs to limit the spread of the crisis with "certain adjustive and redressive mechanisms . . . [which] are swiftly brought into operation by leading or structurally representative members of the disturbed social system" (ibid.). Turner contributed methodologically to the study of ritual symbols. He introduced the term multivocality to indicate that one symbol may stand for many things. As a result of the polysemous symbols, he suggested a triarchic approach to the study of meaning in ritual symbols. The meaning of symbols must incorporate the exegetical (i.e., indigenous) meaning, the operational meaning and the positional meaning. The exegetical meaning is obtained by "questioning indigenous informants about observed ritual behavior" (Turner, 1967:50). The operational meaning comes from observing what is done with the symbol, the structure and composition of the group that handles the symbol and the affective qualities of the handling of the symbol. The operational meaning also takes into account those groups that are excluded from interacting with the symbol. "The positional meaning of a symbol derives from its relationship to other symbols in a totality, a Gestalt, whose elements acquire their significance from the system as a whole" (Turner, 1967:51). Turner considered himself a comparative symbologist, which suggests he valued his contributions to the study of ritual symbols. It is in the closely related study of ritual processes that he had the most impact. The most important contribution Turner made to the field of anthropology is his work on liminality and communitas. Believing the liminal stage to be of "crucial importance" in the ritual process, Turner explored the idea of liminality more seriously. …

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo (crown). Symbol, Myth and Ritual Series. Black soft cover, xi, [2], 326pp, with twelve plates of photographs. A small rubber stamp on bottom edge of textblock, light rubbing on spine, edges, some discoloration on rear cover. A Near Fine Copy.

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Soft cover. Condition: Poor. The Drums of Affliction: A Study of Religious Processes among the Ndembu of Zambia. Victor Witter Turner. First edition published in 1968 by Oxford University Press. This copy: Cornell Paperbacks edition, 1978. Black softcover binding. No dust jacket. Size: 21.0 × 14.0 cm. Weight: 0.5 kg.Language: English. Condition: Good. Moderate cover wear and edge foxing. Minor page tanning. Text clean and binding firm. Description: A classic work in cultural and religious anthropology, this volume explores ritual healing, divination, and affliction among the Ndembu of Zambia. Turner analyzes how illness and suffering are addressed through communal ritual and symbolic meaning, offering a foundational study in the anthropology of religion. Includes black-and-white ethnographic photographs, detailed chapter organization, bibliography, and index. Part of the "Symbol, Myth, and Ritual" series. Shipping from Tokyo, Japan. International shipping available. Please note: All sales are final, especially for higher-value items. Returns are not accepted unless the item is significantly not as described.…

blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine xiii + 326pp illus VG ( light fading to edge, light tapestain transfer, occassional light pencil notation, owners name on fep) in VG d/w (some tapestain bleedthrough from obverse, fading to spine, light rubbing).

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN.…

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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First U.K. 326 pages in very good, clean condition. Illustrated with plates and figures. Blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Very light wear on the corners. Red illustrated DJ with white titles. Spine faded, corners and edges rubbed. Not price clipped. VG+/GOOD+. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1972 reprint. Usual library stamps and stickers for discard. Adhesive tape stains on endpapers and residue on boards, in spite of protector there are two stains on DJ though edges and artwork are crisp. Evidence of the beginning stages of foxing (three inch span on foredges of approx. 50 pages) visible only under close inspections. Solid binding, mostly clean bright interior. Better than a reading copy. Ex-Library.…

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