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    Victor Turner Revisited

    Victor Turner altered the way ritual is viewed, by emphasizing its role as an agent of social change rather than an agent for conserving the status quo. This book reconsiders and clarifies Turner's...
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  • Victorian and Edwardian Railway Travel
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    Victorian and Edwardian Railway Travel

    The railway was one of the main modes of long distance travel for Victorian Britons, and its processes - checking the timetable, buying a ticket, taking a seat - were central to both the industry and...
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  • Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen
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    Fairy Tales on the Teen Screen

    This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen. The author redeploys Victor Turner's work on liminality for a feminist agenda,...
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  • The Forest of Symbols
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    The Forest of Symbols

    A collection of ten of the most brilliant and important essays on ritual yet written. These papers by Victor Turner... are all seminal and distinguished. undefined American AnthropologistA pioneering...
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  • Ritual und Sakrament Ritual und Sakrament
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    Ritual und Sakrament

    Der Band Ritual und Sakrament befasst sich mit der Ritualtheorie des Ethnologen und Kulturanthropologen Victor Turner. Angesichts des Bedeutungsverlusts der Sakramente wird nach einer neuen Zuordnung...
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  • The Ritual Process The Ritual Process
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    The Ritual Process

    In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute...
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  • In the World but Not of the World In the World but Not of the World
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    In the World but Not of the World

    There has been much discussion of two dimensions of the kingdom of God in scholarship: the temporal (already/not yet) and the embodied (spirit/flesh). Russell proposes that there is a third parallel...
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  • The Sunflower Forest
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    The Sunflower Forest

    Ecological restoration, the attempt to guide damaged ecosystems back to a previous, usually healthier or more natural, condition, is rapidly gaining recognition as one of the most promising...
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  • Immigration and the Challenge of Education Immigration and the Challenge of Education
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    Immigration and the Challenge of Education

    Immigration and the Challenge of Education is a social drama analysis of a school setting and neighborhood community in South Central Los Angeles. This book vividly portrays the lived experiences of...
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    Burning Man Festival

    Burning Man Festival is an intentional community and alternative cultural event involving 50,000 people that meet annually in the desert of Nevada. Scholarly analysis of the festival tends to...
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  • Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors
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    Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors

    In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in...
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  • Ms. Etta's Fast House Ms. Etta's Fast House
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    Ms. Etta's Fast House

    Essence®bestselling author Victor McGlothin delivers a stirring novel about a player who's down on his luck only to receive help from the most unlikely source--the very women whose hearts he...
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  • On the Plaza
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    On the Plaza

    Robert B. Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2000 Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Award, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2001 ...
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  • The Trickster in Contemporary Film The Trickster in Contemporary Film
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    The Trickster in Contemporary Film

    This book discusses the role of the trickster figure in contemporary film against the cultural imperatives and social issues of modernity and postmodernity, and argues that cinematic tricksters...
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    Thinking About 'Beowulf'
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    Thinking About 'Beowulf'

    Bringing contemporary critical theory to bear on Beowulf, the author explores the literary originality of a poem often treated as oral and traditional. He grounds his work in three axioms about...
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  • Another Woman's Child Another Woman's Child
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    Another Woman's Child

     Could you take in your best friend’s child, even if it risked destroying your own family?Jo had thought that her life – and her heart – was full. With a busy job, a...
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  • BROKEN SUMMIT BROKEN SUMMIT
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    BROKEN SUMMIT

    Mountain getaway. Best friends. No men! What could go wrong?Erin didn't like the way his icy glare raked over her. She had plenty of demons eating at her already. And this vacation was meant to purge...
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  • The Serpent King
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    The Serpent King

    SWORD OF THE WAR GOD, THE EXCITING NEW HISTORICAL EPIC FROM TIM HODKINSON, OUT NOW! The fight for vengeance has no victors... AD 936. Einar Unnsson wants revenge. His mother's assassin has stolen...
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  • Beyond the Body Proper
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    Beyond the Body Proper

    Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper": a singular, discrete biological organism with an...
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  • Do This
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    Do This

    Dramatic elements have always been apparent in the historic Christian liturgy. Because the liturgy is a structured action and not merely a verbal narrative, it has historically been both illuminated...
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  • Professional Music-Making in London Professional Music-Making in London
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    Professional Music-Making in London

    Professional Music-Making in London is an engaging yet innovative study which examines the lives and work of Western art musicians from an ethnographic perspective. Drawing in part on his own...
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  • Shared Prosperity in America's Communities
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    Shared Prosperity in America's Communities

    While the nation's GDP has doubled in the last thirty years, significant increases in family income have been restricted to a small subset of the American population. This disjunct between national...
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  • JACKIE COLLINS JACKIE COLLINS
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    JACKIE COLLINS

    JACKIE COLLINSQUEEN OF THE BLOCKBUSTER NOVELBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonRomance • sex • glamour • glitter • Hollywood • fame • fashion • crime • murder • sleaze thrills • and lots of money. A survey of...
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  • Hunting Caribou
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    Hunting Caribou

    Den©sulin© hunters range from deep in the Boreal Forest far into the tundra of northern Canada. Henry S. Sharp, a social anthropologist and ethnographer, spent several decades participating in...
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  • Trump and the Media
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    Trump and the Media

    The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news and social media.Donald Trump's election as the 45th President of the United States came as something of a surprise-to many analysts,...
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  • The Mushroom at the End of the World
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    The Mushroom at the End of the World

    *One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2015**Winner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology**One of Flavorwire's 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in...
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    Body and Emotion
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    Body and Emotion

    Shelter Blues Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless Robert R. DesjarlaisWinner of the 1999 Victor Turner Prize of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology""Beautifully crafted, powerfully illustrated...
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  • El blocao El blocao
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    El blocao

    El blocao, Novela de la guerra marroqui, by Jose Diaz Fernandez constitutes one of the finest examples of the Modernist-Vanguardist aesthetics in Spanish literature.In a truly elegant way its author...
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  • The Bay
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    The Bay

    The Beach meets Point Break in the exhilarating new thriller, with a heart-stopping twist, by the bestselling author of ShiverThere's a darkness inside all of us and The Bay has a way of bringing it...
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  • Seeds of Revolution Seeds of Revolution
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    Seeds of Revolution

    A Collection of Axioms, Passages & Proverbs From ? Che Guevara ? Bob Marley ? Mao Tse Tung ? George Jackson ? Noam Chomsky ? Patrice Lumumba ? Leonard Peltier ? Richard Pryor ? Bruce Lee ? H. Rap...
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