Victor Turner
Born: May 28, 1920
Died: December 18, 1983 (aged 63)
Bio: Victor Witter Turner was a British cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals and rites of passage. His work, along with that of Clifford Geertz and others, is often referred to as symbolic and interpretive anthropology.
Known for:
- Forest of symbols (1967)
- From ritual to theatre (1982)
- The anthropology of performance
- Dramas, fields, and metaphors (1974)
- Schism and continuity in an African society (1957)
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