The Anthropology of Experience

The Anthropology of Experience
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 0252012496
ISBN-13 : 9780252012495
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Download or read book The Anthropology of Experience written by Victor Witter Turner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative, literary work, theater, carnival, ritual, reminiscence, and life review. Their studies will be of special interest for anyone working in anthropological theory, symbolic anthropology, and contemporary social and cultural anthropology, and useful as well for other social scientists, folklorists, literary theorists, and philosophers.


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