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Turner, Victor W. 1920-1983.

The Ritual Process : Structure and Anti-Structure / Victor Turner ; with a foreword by Roger D. Abrahams. - New York : Aldine de Gruyter, c1995. - xvi, 213 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures ; 1966 .

Contents
1 Planes of Classification in a Ritual of Life and Death;
2 Paradoxes of Twinship in Ndembu Ritual;
3 Liminality and Communitas;
4 Communitas: Model and Process;
5 Humility and Hierarchy: The Liminality of Status Elevation and Reversal;
Bibliography;
Index

ISBN: 0202011909 (paper : acidfree paper) 9780202011905

LCCN: 95127440

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Rites and ceremonies.
Social Structure.
Symbolism.
Ndembu (African people)--Rites and Ceremonies.

LC Class. No.: GN473 / .T82 1995

Dewey Class. No.: 306.69138 TUR