Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-462-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 686 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

St John, Graham

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance: An Introduction

Graham St John

PART I: PERFORMING CULTURE: RITUAL, DRAMA AND MEDIA

Chapter 1. Toward a Unified Theory of Cultural Performance: A "Reconstructive Introduction" to Victor Turner

J. Lowell Lewis

Chapter 2. The Ritualization of Performance (Studies)

Ian Maxwell

Chapter 3. Performing "Sorry Business": Reconciliation and Redressive Action

Michael Cohen, Paul Dwyer and Laura Ginters

Chapter 4. Liminality in Media Studies: From Everyday Life to Media Events

Mihai Coman

Chapter 5. Social Drama in a Mediatized World: The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence

Simon Cottle

PART II POPULAR CULTURE AND RITES OF PASSAGE

Chapter 6. Modern Sports: Liminal Ritual or Liminoid Leisure?

Sharon Rowe

Chapter 7. Trance Tribes and Dance Vibes: Victor Turner and Electronic Dance Music Culture

Graham St John

Chapter 8. Backpacking as a Contemporary Rite of Passage: Victor Turner and Youth Travel Practices

Amie Matthews

Chapter 9. Walking to Hill End with Victor Turner: A Theatre-Making Immersion Event

Gerard Boland

PART III: CONTEMPORARY PILGRIMAGE AND COMMUNITAS

Chapter 10. Of Ordeals and Operas: Reflexive Ritualizing at the Burning Man Festival

Lee Gilmore

Chapter 11. "Shopping For A Self": Pilgrimage, Identity-Formation and Retail Therapy

Justine Digance and Carole Cusack

Chapter 12. Turner Meets Gandhi: Pilgrimage, Ritual and the Diffusion of Non-Violent Direct Action

Sean Scalmer

Chapter 13. Dramas, Fields, and ‘Appropriate Education’: The Ritual Process, Contestation, and Communitas for Parents of Special-Needs Children

Margi Nowak

PART IV: EDITH TURNER

Chapter 14. An Interview with Edith Turner

Matthew Engelke

Chapter 15. Woman/women in "the Discourse of Man": Edie Turner and Victor Turner’s Language of the Feminine

Barbara Babcock

Chapter 16. Faith and (Social) Science: Contrasting Victor and Edith Turner’s Analysis of Spiritual Realities

Douglas Ezzy

Chapter 17. Challenging the Boundaries of Experience, Performance, and Consciousness: Edith Turner’s Contributions to the Turnerian Project

Jill Dubisch

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

St John, Graham
Graham St John is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Dept of Social Sciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia. He is Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture and is author of Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures (Bloomsbury 2017), Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT (North Atlantic Books, 2015), Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Equinox, 2012) and Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures (Equinox, 2009).

Graham St John is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Dept of Social Sciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and an Adjunct Research Fellow in the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia. He is Executive Editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture and is author of Weekend Societies: Electronic Dance Music Festivals and Event-Cultures (Bloomsbury 2017), Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT (North Atlantic Books, 2015), Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Equinox, 2012) and Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures (Equinox, 2009).