books by Edith Turner (anthropology contemporary ethnography)

books by Edith Turner

books:

On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology As Experience (Anthropology of Form and Meaning)
Victor Turner

University of Arizona Press, 1986

Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture

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Victor Turner, Edith Turner

Columbia University Press, 1995

Image and Pilgrimage in Chriatian Culture
The book will be an answer to those who are looking for some reasons why such kind of phenomenona, like pilgrimages are still observed in the modern world. Victor Turner repeatedly talks of signifiers and signified and in the book his focus is very much on Marian devotion.

Heart Of Lightness: The Life Story Of An Anthropologist
Edith Turner

Berghahn Books, 2006

Among the Healers: Stories of Spiritual and Ritual Healing around the World (Religion, Health, and Healing)
Edith Turner

Praeger Publishers, 2005

Every day, everywhere in the world, people deal with sickness (both physical and mental), and must choose ways to address the illnesses from which they suffer. Some will go to doctors, take medicine, have surgery. Others will do nothing. Still others try a combination of prayer and medical attention. And some communities rely on religious, spiritual, and ritual healing methods that employ various techniques to heal their loved ones. Here, a ...

Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing (Contemporary Ethnography)
Edith Turner

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992

Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu. Through her analysis, she presents a view not common in anthropological writings--the view of millions of Africans--that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power.