Upon the 25th anniversary of his passing, this collection addresses the wide application of Victor Turner’s thought to cultural performance in the early 21st century. From anthropology, sociology, and religious studies to performance, cultural, and media studies, Turner’s ideas have had a prodigious interdisciplinary impact. Examining his relevance in studies of performance and popular culture, media, and religion, along with the role of Edith Turner in the Turnerian project, contributors explore how these ideas have been re-engaged, renovated, and repurposed in studies of contemporary cultural performance.
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Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance: An Introduction
Graham St John
PART I: PERFORMING CULTURE: RITUAL, DRAMA AND MEDIA
Chapter 1. Toward a Unified Theory of Cultural Performance: A ‘Reconstructive Introduction’ to Victor Turner
J. Lowell Lewis
Chapter 2. The Ritualization of Performance (Studies)
Ian Maxwell
Chapter 3. Performing ‘Sorry Business’: Reconciliation and Redressive Action
Michael Cohen, Paul Dwyer and Laura Ginters
Chapter 4. Liminality in Media Studies: From Everyday Life to Media Events
Mihai Coman
Chapter 5. Social Drama in a Mediatized World: The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Simon Cottle
PART II POPULAR CULTURE AND RITES OF PASSAGE
Chapter 6. Modern Sports: Liminal Ritual or Liminoid Leisure?
Sharon Rowe
Chapter 7. Trance Tribes and Dance Vibes: Victor Turner and Electronic Dance Music Culture
Graham St John
Chapter 8. Backpacking as a Contemporary Rite of Passage: Victor Turner and Youth Travel Practices
Amie Matthews
Chapter 9. Walking to Hill End with Victor Turner: A Theatre-Making Immersion Event
Gerard Boland
PART III: CONTEMPORARY PILGRIMAGE AND COMMUNITAS
Chapter 10. Of Ordeals and Operas: Reflexive Ritualizing at the Burning Man Festival
Lee Gilmore
Chapter 11. ‘Shopping For A Self’: Pilgrimage, Identity-Formation and Retail Therapy
Justine Digance and Carole Cusack
Chapter 12. Turner Meets Gandhi: Pilgrimage, Ritual and the Diffusion of Non-Violent Direct Action
Sean Scalmer
Chapter 13. Dramas, Fields, and ‘Appropriate Education’: The Ritual Process, Contestation, and Communitas for Parents of Special-Needs Children
Margi Nowak
PART IV: EDITH TURNER
Chapter 14. An Interview with Edith Turner
Matthew Engelke
Chapter 15. Woman/women in ‘the Discourse of Man’: Edie Turner and Victor Turner’s Language of the Feminine
Barbara Babcock
Chapter 16. Faith and (Social) Science: Contrasting Victor and Edith Turner’s Analysis of Spiritual Realities
Douglas Ezzy
Chapter 17. Challenging the Boundaries of Experience, Performance, and Consciousness: Edith Turner’s Contributions to the Turnerian Project
Jill Dubisch
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Sobre o autor
Graham St John is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Dept of Social Sciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia. He is Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture and is author of Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures (Bloomsbury 2017), Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT (North Atlantic Books, 2015), Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Equinox, 2012) and Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures (Equinox, 2009).
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