Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance

Published by Berghahn Books 2008

Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance

Edited by: Graham St John

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857450371

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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).

Reviews

“This collection of writings dedicated to the Turners may sometimes contest the validity and morality of 'feelings and desires', but St John gives these elusive possibilities an enduring stage for becoming. Could the volume be conceived as an academic fissure inciting change?” · Australasian Drama Studies

“An impressive selection of analyses conducted through diverse disciplinary lenses (including media and communication, sociology, religion, and anthropology) explicates the need for a revival of Turner's multifaceted theory.” · The Canadian Review of Sociology

“This volume is a wonderful exercise in rethinking Turner through the lens of our increasingly digitalized and mediatized world. . . . The introduction by St John alone is worth the price of the book. Dense with the jargon of scholarship, freshly minted phrases, theoretical labels, and esoteric framings, as it need be to describe the work of Turner, who made a prodigious impact across a spectrum of disciplines." · JRAI

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance: An Introduction Graham St John Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Performing Culture: Ritual, Drama, and Media
Chapter One. Toward a Unified Theory of Cultural Performance: A Reconstructive Introduction to Victor Turner J Lowell Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Chapter Two. The Ritualization of Performance (Studies) Ian Maxwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter Three. Performing “Sorry Business”: Reconciliation and Redressive Action Michael Cohen, Paul Dwyer and Laura Ginters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Chapter Four. Liminality in Media Studies: From Everyday Life to Media Events Mihai Coman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter Five. Social Drama in a Mediatized World: The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence Simon Cottle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
PART II Popular Culture and Rites of Passage
Chapter Six. Modern Sports: Liminal Ritual or Liminoid Leisure? Sharon Rowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Chapter Seven. Trance Tribes and Dance Vibes: Victor Turner and Electronic Dance Music Culture Graham St John Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Chapter Eight. Backpacking as a Contemporary Rite of Passage: Victor Turner and Youth Travel Practices Amie Matthews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Chapter Nine. Walking to Hill End with Victor Turner: A Theater-Making Immersion Event Gerard Boland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
PART III Contemporary Pilgrimage and Communitas
Chapter Ten. Of Ordeals and Operas: Refl exive Ritualizing at the Burning Man Festival Lee Gilmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Chapter Eleven “Shopping For a Self”: Pilgrimage, Identity-Formation, and Retail Therapy Carole M Cusack and Justine Digance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Chapter Twelve. Turner Meets Gandhi: Pilgrimage, Ritual, and the Diffusion of Nonviolent Direct Action Sean Scalmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
Chapter Thirteen. Dramas, Fields, and “Appropriate Education”: The Ritual Process, Contestation, and Communitas for Parents of Special-Needs Children Margi Nowak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
PART IV Edith Turner
Chapter Fourteen. An Interview with Edith Turner Matthew Engelke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Chapter Fifteen. Woman/women in “the Discourse of Man”: Edie Turner and Victor Turner’s Language of the Feminine Barbara A Babcock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Chapter Sixteen. Faith and Social Science: Contrasting Victor and Edith Turner’s Analyses of Spiritual Realities Douglas Ezzy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Chapter Seventeen. Challenging the Boundaries of Experience, Performance, and Consciousness: Edith Turner’s Contributions to the Turnerian Project Jill Dubisch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
Contributor Biographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 368
Keywords: Performance Studies; Anthropology (General); Cultural Studies (General)

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Published: April 1, 2008
ISBN: 9780857450371