The Anthropology of Experience

The Anthropology of Experience
Author: Victor Witter Turner
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1986
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780252012495

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.

A Passage to Anthropology

A Passage to Anthropology
Author: Kirsten Hastrup
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135100640

The postmodernist critique of Objectivism, Realism and Essentialism has somewhat shattered the foundations of anthropology, seriously questioning the legitimacy of studying others. By confronting the critique and turning it into a vital part of the anthropological debate, A Passage to Anthropology provides a rigorous discussion of central theoretical problems in anthropology that will find a readership in the social sciences and the humanities. It makes the case for a renewed and invigorated scholarly anthropology with extensive reference to recent anthropological debates in Europe and the US, as well as to new developments in linguistic theory and, especially, newer American philosophy. Although the style of the work is mainly theoretical, the author illustrates the points by referring to her own fieldwork conducted in Iceland. A Passage to Anthropology will be of interest to students in anthropology, sociology and cultural studies.

The Anthropology of Performance

The Anthropology of Performance
Author: Victor Witter Turner
Publisher: Paj Publication
Total Pages: 185
Release: 1988
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781555540012

One of the outstanding books in educational studies. --American Educaitonal Studies Association.

Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance

Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance
Author: Graham St. John
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2008
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781845454623

In the twenty years following Victor Turner's death, interventions on the interconnected performance modes of play, drama, and community (dimensions of which Turner deemed the limen), and experimental and analytical forays into the anthropologies of experience and consciousness, have complemented and extended Turnerian readings on the moments and sites of culture's becoming. Examining Turner's continued relevance in performance and popular culture, pilgrimage and communitas, as well as Edith Turner's role, the contributors reflect on the wide application of Victor Turner's thought to cultural performance in the early twenty-first century and explore how Turner's ideas have been re-engaged, renovated, and repurposed in studies of contemporary cultural performance.

From Ritual to Theatre

From Ritual to Theatre
Author: Victor Witter Turner
Publisher: New York City : Performing Arts Journal Publications
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1982
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience . . . We must admire him for this.-Times Literary Supplement

Culture on Tour

Culture on Tour
Author: Edward M. Bruner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0226077632

Recruited to be a lecturer on a group tour of Indonesia, Edward M. Bruner decided to make the tourists aware of tourism itself. He photographed tourists photographing Indonesians, asking the group how they felt having their pictures taken without their permission. After a dance performance, Bruner explained to the group that the exhibition was not traditional, but instead had been set up specifically for tourists. His efforts to induce reflexivity led to conflict with the tour company, which wanted the displays to be viewed as replicas of culture and to remain unexamined. Although Bruner was eventually fired, the experience became part of a sustained exploration of tourist performances, narratives, and practices. Synthesizing more than twenty years of research in cultural tourism, Culture on Tour analyzes a remarkable variety of tourist productions, ranging from safari excursions in Kenya and dance dramas in Bali to an Abraham Lincoln heritage site in Illinois. Bruner examines each site in all its particularity, taking account of global and local factors, as well as the multiple perspectives of the various actors—the tourists, the producers, the locals, and even the anthropologist himself. The collection will be essential to those in the field as well as to readers interested in globalization and travel.

The Anthropology of Cultural Performance

The Anthropology of Cultural Performance
Author: L. Lewis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2013-08-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137342382

Contemporary life in most nation-states is not truly cultural, but rather "culture-like," especially in large-scale societies. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life, Lewis examines fundamental events including play, ritual, work, and carnival and connects personal embodied habits and large-scale cultural practices.

Experiential and Performative Anthropology in the Classroom

Experiential and Performative Anthropology in the Classroom
Author: Pamela R. Frese
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-07-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030419959

The contributors gathered here revitalize “ethnographic performance”—the performed recreation of ethnographic subject matter pioneered by Victor and Edith Turner and Richard Schechner—as a progressive pedagogy for the 21st century. They draw on their experiences in utilizing performances in a classroom setting to facilitate learning about the diversity of culture and ways of being in the world. The editors, themselves both students of Turner at the University of Virginia, and Richard Schechner share recollections of the Turners’ vision and set forth a humanistic pedagogical agenda for the future. A detailed appendix provides an implementation plan for ethnographic performances in the classroom.

Clinical Anthropology 2.0

Clinical Anthropology 2.0
Author: Jason W. Wilson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2022-02-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498597696

Clinical Anthropology 2.0 presents a new approach to applied medical anthropology that engages with clinical spaces, healthcare systems, care delivery and patient experience, public health, as well as the education and training of physicians. In this book, Jason W. Wilson and Roberta D. Baer highlight the key role that medical anthropologists can play on interdisciplinary care teams by improving patient experience and medical education. Included throughout are real life examples of this approach, such as the training of medical and anthropology students, creation of clinical pathways, improvement of patient experiences and communication, and design patient-informed interventions. This book includes contributions by Heather Henderson, Emily Holbrook, Kilian Kelly, Carlos Osorno-Cruz, and Seiichi Villalona.

The Anthropology of Real Life

The Anthropology of Real Life
Author: Philip Carl Salzman
Publisher: Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1999
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

The Anthropology of Real Life is about how events push and pull, oppress and liberate, enhance and destroy people's lives. While people are shaped by their cultures and their position in society, events--whether authored by natural forces, by other people, or by people themselves--take on a life of their own, and become independent forces determining human destinies. An anthropology of events shows the way in which the substance and texture of life change over time, as one major event fades and another arises, itself only to fade and be replaced by yet a new event.