ISBN10: 080149205X, ISBN13: 9780801492051, [publisher: Cornell University Press] Softcover 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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ISBN10: 080149205X, ISBN13: 9780801492051, [publisher: Cornell University Press] Softcover 1968/1981. Africa. Cornell University Press. Good paperback with wear along the edges of covers, pen underlining in introduction only. Otherwise tight binding.326p.
[Chicago, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1981]

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Cornell University Press. Good. Date: 1981. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. 080149205X . *Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Good overall condition. General wear to cover. No major blemishes. No writing on text pages. . 1981. Cornell University Press ISBN 080149205X 9780801492051 [US]

ISBN10: 080149205X, ISBN13: 9780801492051, [publisher: Cornell Univ Pr, US] Softcover 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 ...
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