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Dramas, fields, and metaphors: symbolic action in human society

Contributor(s):

Turner, Victor

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Cornell University Press 1974Description: 309pISBN:

801491517(pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.2 TUR

Summary: In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new paradigms are generated. To describe and clarify these processes, he ranges widely in history and geography: from ancient society through the medieval period to modern revolutions, and over India, Africa, Europe, China, and Meso-America.

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Gratis Resources	Plaksha University Library	Social Science	306.2 TUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		G000533

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In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new paradigms are generated. To describe and clarify these processes, he ranges widely in history and geography: from ancient society through the medieval period to modern revolutions, and over India, Africa, Europe, China, and Meso-America.

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