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		Turner's final academic position was as the William R. Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the University of Virginia where he also had membership in the Center for Advanced Studies and the South Asia Program.
		The present author [i.e., Turner], stimulated during his fieldwork by Henri Junod's use of van Gennep's interpretive apparatus for understanding Thonga ritual (Junod 1962 [1912-13]), came to see that the liminal stage was of crucial importance with regard to this process of regenerative renewal (Turner, 1985:159).
		Barnard, H.G. Victor Witter Turner: A bibliography (1952-1975).
	www.indiana.edu /~wanthro/turner.htm (3070 words)

	Victor Turner: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Victor W. Turner (May 28, 1920 - 1983) was a renowned anthropologist (A social scientist who specializes in anthropology).
		Turner was born in Glasgow (Largest city in Scotland; a port in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world), Scotland.
		Turner gained notoriety by exploring Arnold van Gennep (additional info and facts about Arnold van Gennep) ’s threefold structure of rites of passage and expanding theories on the liminal phase.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/victor_turner.htm (257 words)

	Victor Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Turner was also a superb ethnographer who constantly mused about his craft in his books and articles.
		Turner's work on ritual has stood as one of the most influential theories in anthropology during the twentieth century; but recently this 'Turnerian Paradigm' has been challenged.
		Victor Turner : brief introduction to symbolic anthropology using the techniques of Victor Turner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Turner (486 words)

	Encyclopedia: Victor Turner
		Turner gained notoriety by exploring Arnold van Gennep ’s threefold structure of rites of passage and expanding theories on the liminal phase.
		Turner's final academic position was as the William R. Kenan Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the University of Virginia where he also had membership in the Center for Advanced Studies and the South Asia Program.
		The present author [i.e., Turner], stimulated during his fieldwork by Henri Junod's use of van Gennep's interpretive apparatus for understanding Thonga ritual (Junod 1962 [1912-13]), came to see that the liminal stage was of crucial importance with regard to this process of regenerative renewal (Turner, 1985:159).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Victor-Turner (979 words)

	Ritual, Anti-Structure, and Religion: A Discussion of Victor Turner's Processual Symbolic Analysis (Mathieu Deflem)
		Turner consequently intended his doctoral dissertation primarily to be "a study of social conflict and of the social mechanisms brought into play to reduce, exclude or resolve conflict" (Turner 1957a:89).
		Turner's definition of ritual, as we have seen, included the manipulation of efficacious symbols in ritual performances and the reference that is made in ritual to a belief in supernatural beings or powers.
		Turner's main theoretical advance was to show how rituals are more than just social glue for the maintenance of the social order, and how rituals are processes, not states, in the social world, which itself is "a world in becoming, not a world in being" (Turner 1974a:24).
	www.cas.sc.edu /socy/faculty/deflem/zturn.htm (10044 words)

	Read about Victor Turner at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Victor Turner and learn about Victor Turner here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		University of Chicago, Turner began to apply his study of rituals and rites of passage to world religions and the lives of religious heroes.
		Arnold van Gennep’s threefold structure of rites of passage and expanding theories on the liminal phase.
		Victor Turner (http://www.shadowdrake.com/folklore/turner.html) : brief introduction to symbolic anthropology using the techniques of Victor Turner.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Victor_Turner (232 words)

	A Maelstrom of Symbols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Victor Turner was interested in the transmitting of culture symbols from generation to generation.
		The focus of the works of Victor Turner are centered on the multivocalic and polysemic nature of symbols, and their ability to bring together the seemingly disparate significata which are represented by the symbolic vehicle and the polarization of the referents assigned to the major ritual symbol.
		A ritual, according to Victor Turner, is "Formal behavior prescribed for occasions not given over to technological routine that have reference to beliefs in mystical beings or powers." (ibid.) Victor Turner describes a symbol as being like a sign except that there is a likeness between the thing which is being signified and the meaning.
	www.shadowdrake.com /folklore/turner.html (1273 words)

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		Turner's concept of liminality provides us with a framework in which all of these dimensions of magico-ritual-religious systems may be analyzed in terms of a unified theory.
		Turner suggested that humans possess an inherent need and capacity for various forms of liminal experience (heightened emotion, doing things backwards, permitted excesses, challenges to authority) and that such experience will be brought into play during social dramas which punctuate social life as a process which unfolds over time.
		Turner's famous analysis of the symbolism of the colours red, white and fl in Ndembu ritual, and cross-culturally is an example of his mode of analysis.
	arts.uwaterloo.ca /ANTHRO/rwpark/courses/Anth311/turner99.htm (874 words)

	Victor W. Turner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Victor Turner was born in Glasgow on May 28, 1920.
		Turner became a professor of Anthropology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago in 1968.
		Turner became interested in experimental theatre as a modern form of liminality where everyday reality is transformed into a symbolic experience.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/turner_victor.html (396 words)

	Some Thoughts on Victor Turner's The Ritual Process (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Turner believes that individuals deprived of either structure or communitas will seek to fill their needs through rituals that provide them with either structure, in the case of those that are structurally inferior, or communitas, in the case of those that are structurally superior.
		Turner's theoretical approach is reliant on the work of Arnold van Gennep, who developed the idea of liminality in his own work.
		Turner used ideas, like communitas and liminality to organize his thoughts, and to assist in understanding the ritual behavior of the tribe he studied.
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	The Victor Salvi Foundation
		The Victor Salvi Foundation began a partnership with YCA in November 2000 to further performance opportunities for outstanding young harpists recognized for their achievements as previous winners of international harp competitions.
		In 2004, The Victor Salvi Foundation and the Associazione Culturale MusicArtVenezia co-sponsored the International Competition for Harp Music Composers at which the Victor Salvi Prize was awarded to Victor Ulianich for his composition, “The Morning Stars Hymns.” MusicArtVenezia organized this event at the beautiful Fondazione Giorgio Cini.
		The Victor Salvi Foundation was an active supporter of the Royal Philharmonic Society Live Classical Music Awards in 2006 by providing the Concert Series and Festivals Award, which was present to Xenakis: Architect in Sound.
	victorsalvifoundation.com /partners.html (2201 words)

	Victor Turner - Postmodern Theory of Social Drama - Boje
		Turner acknowledges roots to Burke (Turner, 1982a) and to Goffman (Turner, 1985: 181).
		Turner’s theatrical approach, being processual and dynamic, is more appropriate than Burke or Goffman’s to explore the rise and fall of social movements.
		Liminality is defined by Turner (1974: 52), as being “between successive participations in social milieu.” There is a grander “liminal transition” in the peace movement, and seemingly no way to stop the growth of fascism that embeds American governance (Turner, 1974: 47).
	cbae.nmsu.edu /%7Edboje/theatrics/7/victor_turner.htm (3123 words)

	Victor Turner and Contemporary Culture / Performance
		Turner died in 1983 at the age of 63.
		Investigating how Turner’s contribution has been renovated and repurposed in studies of contemporary cultural performance, this volume will be important to students and practitioners of anthropology, sociology, religion, politics, cultural studies and literary studies.
		Given the collaborative labor of the Turner’s — from their formative Ndembu field experience to Catholic pilgrimage — we would be amiss to forget Edith’s contribution to the ‘Turnerian’ project.
	www.edgecentral.net /victurnercall.htm (1395 words)

	Turner collection
		In the decade following Victor Turner's death, it became apparent that the influence of this prime mover in the anthropology of ritual, symbols and performance was waning.
		Having a prodigious impact upon a wide spread of disciplines — from anthropology and religious studies to performance, cultural and media studies - Turner died in 1983 at the age of 63.
		Yet while cracks in the dialectical-structuralist model to which Turner was indebted were beginning to show, the departure from this model was never quite convincing.
	www.edgecentral.net /turnercollection.htm (709 words)

	chick
		Between mid-1970 and 1983, the year he died, Victor Turner was recognized as one of the most important cultural theorist for several disciplines; anthropology, religious studies, literary theory, and American studies.
		Turner is struck by the liminal's ludic quality (Turner, 1982, p.27), for these "new forms of symbolic action," are "particularly conducive to play...
		Turner describes the liminal as a "the seedbed of cultural creativity [from which] new symbols and constructions then feed back" into the exiting social and economic orders.
	www.uiowa.edu /~lsa/bkh/121/173chick.htm (1788 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 41, No. 4 - January 1985 - ARTICLE - Worship as Anti-Structure: The Contribution of Victor Turner
		Turner's theoretical structure and his work on worship is difficult to summarize because of its richness.
		Turner's thought is far more complex and far-reaching than this brief summary, but perhaps we have enough of it in hand to illustrate its usefulness in understanding some dimensions of Christian worship.
		What we may be missing, however, is Turner's notion that the heart of worship lies in its being a communitas experience which is related dialectically and perhaps paradoxically to the world of structure but is distinctly and critically different from it.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jan1985/v41-4-article3.htm (3293 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Hanson Victor Turner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On 6/7 June 1944 at Ningthoukong, Burma (now Myanmar) (additional info and facts about Burma (now Myanmar)), when Sergeant Turner's platoon was obliged to give ground before strong enemy forces, he reorganised his party and withdrew 40 yards.
		Next day Sergeant Turner decided to take the initiative in driving the enemy off and went forward alone, armed with grenades which he used with devastating effect.
		When his supply was exhausted he went back for more - five times he did this and it was on the sixth occasion that he was killed while throwing a grenade.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ha/Hanson_Victor_Turner.htm (192 words)

	I Confess (Mathieu Deflem) - Page 2: Intro Theory
		Victor Turner developed a unique anthropological perspective of ritual that extended beyond Durkheim's emphasis on the re-integrative functions of ritual (Turner 1967, 1969, 1974).
		Turner defines ritual as "prescribed formal behavior for occasions not given over to technological routine, having reference to beliefs in mystical beings and powers." A symbol is the smallest unit of ritual which still retains the specific properties of ritual behavior.
		Turner argued that the very essence of ritual performances was not, as Durkheim would have it, a celebration of the social order or social structure, but an attempt --successful, albeit only temporary-- to escape from the demands and functions of the structures of society in order to create communitas or anti-structure.
	www.cla.sc.edu /socy/faculty/deflem/Hit/ahitch2.htm (787 words)

	Lana Turner -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Though her skill as an actress was limited, Turner excelled in roles that highlighted her sexuality and working-class roots.
		The revolt ended the false belief that slaves were either happy with their lives as they were or were too submissive to rebel.
		Turner's frontier thesis has proved to be one of...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9338976 (746 words)

	Bernie DeKoven's FunLog: Victor Turner on Liminality and Communitas
		Bernie DeKoven's FunLog: Victor Turner on Liminality and Communitas
		Found on a site called Creative Resistance, here's an article that somewhat clarifies Victor Turner's dense, but profound concepts of Liminality and Communitas - both ideas being central to our understanding of The Well-Played Game, and all that is inherent therein.
		"Turner discovered that a potent and distinctive form of social community which he called communitas emerges in the liminal stages of pilgrimages.
	www.deepfun.com /weblog/2005/04/victor-turner-on-liminality-and.html (329 words)

	Michael Turner
		Michael Turner, Aviation artist Michael Turner, we have a selection of aviation art prints many of them published in the late 1970's.
		From an original painting by Michael Turner The Hawker Horsley was the last wooden aircraft to be constructed by Hawker.
		From an original painting by Michael Turner The De Havilland 2 was designed in 1915, and first used by No.24 squadron RFC and used by three RFC Squadrons in France until June 1917.
	www.militaryartcompany.com /michael_turner.htm (2112 words)

	EthnoNe - Séminaire II - Anthropologie britannique - Turner
		Moore, Jerry D. - "Victor Turner : symbols, pilgrims and drama", in: Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists / Jerry D. Moore.
		Ritual, anti-structure, and religion: a discussion of Victor Turner's processual symbolic analysis par Mathieu Deflem.
		Worship as anti-structure: the contribution of Victor Turner by J.
	www.unine.ch /ethno/biblio/2000turner.html (1128 words)

	Anc. Med. Ritual
		Grimes, Ronald L. "Victor Turner's Definition, Theory, and Sense of Ritual." In Victor Turner and the Construction of Cultural Criticism: Between Literature and Anthropology, 141-46.
		Turner, Victor W. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual.
		Turner, Victor W. "Sacrifice as Quintessential Process: Prophylaxis or Abandonment?" History of Religions 16 (1977) 189-215.
	www.kchanson.com /CLASSIFIEDBIB/anerit.html (5930 words)

	Excerpts from the Writings of Victor Turner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Turner, liminal people or groups are a "kind of institutional capsule or
		In “Liminality and Communitas,” Victor Turner writes of liminal beings: “It is as though they are being reduced or ground down to a uniform condition
		Turner focused his attention on the second stage of rites of passage - the
	www.creativeresistance.ca /communitas/defining-liminality-and-communitas-with-excerpts-by-victor-turner.htm (850 words)

	Ritual, Anti-Structure, and Religion: A Discussion of Victor Turner's Processual Symbolic Analysis (Mathieu Deflem)
		In identifying the sensory and the ideological poles of symbols, Turner contributed to reconciling sociological and psychological interpretations of ritual symbols.
		1985 Worship as anti-structure: The contribution of Victor Turner.
		Pickering, W. 1974 The persistence of rites of passage: Towards an explanation.
	www.cla.sc.edu /socy/faculty/deflem/zturn.htm (10041 words)

	Edith Turner's Curriculum Vitae
		"The Literary Roots of Victor Turner's Anthropology," in Katherine Ashley, ed., Victor Turner and the Construction of Cultural Criticism: Between Literature and Anthropology.
		Memoirs of Victor Turner, in collaboration with Matthew Engleke, in preparation.
		Judge of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 1990-1991, 1994.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~elt9w/vitae.html (3986 words)

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