1st Edition
Schism and Continuity in an African Society A Study of Ndembu Village Life
By Victor Turner
Copyright 1996
400 Pages
by
Routledge
400 Pages
by
Routledge
348 Pages
by
Routledge
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With a new foreword by Bruce Kapferer, Professor of Anthropology, James Cook University- A reprint of the seminal anthropological work of the 1960s. Originally published by Manchester University Press.Victor Turner will be remembered as the anthropologist who developed the concept of the ‘social drama', a method used extensively by anthropologists to describe and analyse the social life of a... Read more
I HISTORICAL AND ECOI.OOICAL BACKGROUND, II THE VILLAGE : TOPOGRAPHY AND DEMOGRAPHY, III THE SOCIAL COMPOSITION OF THE VILLAGE, IV MATRILINEAL DESCENT : THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF VILLAGE ORGANIZATION, V MATRILINEAL SUCCESSION AND THE DYNAMICS OF VILLAGE INTRIGUE, VI VILLAGE FISSION, SLAVERY AND SOCIAL CHANGE, VII VARIETIES OF VILLAGE FISSION, Vlll THE STRUCTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF VIRILOCAL MARRIAGE WITHIN THE VILLAGE, IX POLITICAL ASPECTS OF KINSHIP AND AFFINITY, X THE POLITICALLY INTEGRATIVE FUNCTION OF RITUAL, XI THE CHIEFTAINSHIP
Biography
Victor Turner formerly of University of Virginia
