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Edith Turner: The Gender of Giftedness
Author(s) -
Wagner Roy
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1525/ahu.2001.26.2.190
Subject(s) - demise , liminality , consummation , compromise , history , sociology , law , political science , social science , archaeology
Is it possible that there is an antidote to precocity, the blight that saps human genious at an early age and leaves more questions than answers? That would Edie Turner. Is it possible that there could be a solution to gender, rather than a mere consummation or compromise? That would be Edie plus or minus Vic. More or less like anthropology itself, Edie started her career after the demise of other options, became sure of herself when most of us are not even sure about “sure.” That would be a liminal event, would it not?, and possibly the only real way to define liminality.