Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance / / ed. by Graham St John.

• MitwirkendeR: Babcock, Barbara A,; Boland, Gerard,; Cohen, Michael,; Coman, Mihai,; Cottle, Simon,; Cusack, Carole M,; Digance, Justine,; Dubisch, Jill,; Dwyer, Paul,; Engelke, Matthew,; Ezzy, Douglas,; Gilmore, Lee,; Ginters, Laura,; Lewis, J Lowell,; Matthews, Amie,; Maxwell, Ian,; Nowak, Margi,; Rowe, Sharon,; Scalmer, Sean,; St John, Graham,
• HerausgeberIn: St John, Graham,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance: An Introduction -- PART I Performing Culture: Ritual, Drama, and Media -- Chapter One. Toward a Unified Theory of Cultural Performance: A Reconstructive Introduction to Victor Turner -- Chapter Two. The Ritualization of Performance (Studies) -- Chapter Three. Performing “Sorry Business”: Reconciliation and Redressive Action -- Chapter Four. Liminality in Media Studies: From Everyday Life to Media Events -- Chapter Five. Social Drama in a Mediatized World: The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence -- PART II Popular Culture and Rites of Passage -- Chapter Six. Modern Sports: Liminal Ritual or Liminoid Leisure? -- Chapter Seven. Trance Tribes and Dance Vibes: Victor Turner and Electronic Dance Music Culture -- Chapter Eight. Backpacking as a Contemporary Rite of Passage: Victor Turner and Youth Travel Practices -- Chapter Nine. Walking to Hill End with Victor Turner: A Theater-Making Immersion Event -- PART III Contemporary Pilgrimage and Communitas -- Chapter Ten. Of Ordeals and Operas: Refl exive Ritualizing at the Burning Man Festival -- Chapter Eleven “Shopping For a Self”: Pilgrimage, Identity-Formation, and Retail Therapy -- Chapter Twelve. Turner Meets Gandhi: Pilgrimage, Ritual, and the Diffusion of Nonviolent Direct Action -- Chapter Thirteen. Dramas, Fields, and “Appropriate Education”: The Ritual Process, Contestation, and Communitas for Parents of Special-Needs Children -- PART IV Edith Turner -- Chapter Fourteen. An Interview with Edith Turner -- Chapter Fifteen. Woman/women in “the Discourse of Man”: Edie Turner and Victor Turner’s Language of the Feminine -- Chapter Sixteen. Faith and Social Science: Contrasting Victor and Edith Turner’s Analyses of Spiritual Realities -- Chapter Seventeen. Challenging the Boundaries of Experience, Performance, and Consciousness: Edith Turner’s Contributions to the Turnerian Project -- Contributor Biographies -- Select Bibliography -- Index