The Anthropology of experience / edited by Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner; with an epilogue by Clifford Geertz
by Turner, Victor W. (Victor Witter) (1920-1983). Bruner, Edward M
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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Illini Books Edition. Softcover. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 391 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Contents: Experience and its expressions / Edward M. Bruner -- Dewey, dilthey, and drama: an essay in the anthropology of experience / Victor W. Turner -- Ordinary and extraordinary experience / Roger D. Abrahams -- Reflexivity as evolution in Thoreau's Walden / Frederck Turner -- Ilongot hunting as story and experience / Renato Rosaldo -- Ethnography as narrative / Edward M. Bruner -- The argument of images and the experience of returning to the whole / James W. Fernandez -- Performance and the structuring of meaning and experience / Bruce Kapferer -- Play and the problem of knowing in Hamlet: an excursion into interpretive anthropology / Phyllis Gorfain -- Symbols, sylphs, and siwa: allegorical machineries in the text of Balinese culture / James A. Boon -- ""Life not death in Venice"": its second life / Barbara Myerhoff -- Patronage and control in the Trinidad carnival / John Stewart -- Modeled selves: Helen Cordero's ""Little People"" / Barbara A. Babcock -- Magnitudes of performance / Richard Schechner -- Making experience, authoring selves / Clifford Geertz. Subjects: Ethnology Philosophy. Ethnology Methodology. Symbolic anthropology. Humanities Methodology.
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- Title
- The Anthropology of experience / edited by Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner; with an epilogue by Clifford Geertz
- Author
- Turner, Victor W. (Victor Witter) (1920-1983). Bruner, Edward M
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Edition
- Illini Books Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0252012496
- ISBN 13
- 9780252012495
- Publisher
- Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana, Il
- Date Published
- 1986
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