by Victor Witter Turner · Tapa dura · ISBN 9780801408168
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«Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society» is Victor Turner's anthropology essay, published in hardcover (309 pp., in English).
Victor Turner analyzes how social actions acquire meaning through metaphors and paradigms, and how new cultural forms emerge from this. With cases from India, Africa, Europe, China and Mesoamerica, he studies conflicts such as Henry II and Thomas Becket, Hidalgo, Christian pilgrimages and dissident sects that renew the social order.
Originally published in 1974 in the series «Symbol, Myth and Ritual» by Cornell University Press; the work includes a bibliography.
Reference work for students and those interested in symbolic anthropology, social theory and the history of religions.
Victor Witter Turner was a British cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals, and rites of passage. His work, along with that of Clifford Geertz and others, is often referred to as symbolic and interpretive anthropology.
