Open AccessUnravelling Ritual
Author(s) -
Peter Metcalf
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
suomen antropologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1799-8972
pISSN - 0355-3930
DOI - 10.30676/jfas.v33i4.116462
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , ethnography , presentation (obstetrics) , sociology , anthropology , epistemology , aesthetics , history , philosophy , linguistics , medicine , radiology
As a pioneer in the interpretation of ritual, Victor Turner showed us how to access other peoples’ deepest understandings about the nature of life. In the process, he encountered problems of presentation that ethnographers still have to confront. This paper explores Turner’s solutions to these problems, and how subsequent authors have modified them.
Keywords: ritual, ethnography, Victor Turner