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The Anthropology of Experience by Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner; with an epilogue by Clifford Geertz is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Anthropology of Experience about?

Fourteen Authors, Including Many Of The Best-known Scholars In The Field, Explore How People Actually Experience Their Culture And How Those Experiences Are Expressed In Forms As Varied As Narrative, Literary Work, Theater, Carnival, Ritual, Reminiscence, And Life Review. Their Studies Will Be Of Special Interest For Anyone Working In Anthropological Theory, Symbolic Anthropology, And Contemporary Social And Cultural Anthropology, And Useful As Well For Other Social Scientists, Folklorists, Literary Theorists, And Philosophers.--back Cover. 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

Who reads The Anthropology of Experience?

It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.

Common subject areas: religion, theology.

Author
Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner; with an epilogue by Clifford Geertz
Publisher
Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Published
1986
Language
EN
ISBN
9780252012495
Category
religious
Subjects
Sociology, Anthropology, Fiction
Rating
4 / 5 (31 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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