Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy

In this seminal work, Edith Turner extends the concept of communitas that Victor Turner developed nearly four decades ago.

Author: E. Turner
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 02/07/2012
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780230339088

About the Author
Edith Turner is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Virginia, USA, specializing in the study of ritual, religion, and consciousness. She has been researching the field of symbol/ritual for nearly 60 years - formerly in collaboration with her husband, renowned anthropologist Victor Turner - and has conducted fieldwork in Zambia, Northern Alaska, rural Ireland, Central and South America, Europe, and Asia. She was editor in chief of the journal, A+nthropology and Humanism, and is author of Heart of Lightness: The Life of an Anthropologist (2006), Among the Healers: Stories of Spiritual and Ritual Healing around the World (2005), and a contributor to Shamanism: A Reader (2003).