Schism and Continuity in an African Society
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Author_Victor Turner
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Elementary Family
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Genealogical Generation
Life Crisis Rituals
Matrilineal Kin
matrilineally-inherited headmanship system
Minimal Lineage
Mother's Brother's Child
Mwinilunga District
Ndembu Society
Ndembu Village
Ndembu village life
Opposite Sex
Parallel Cousins
Sacred Enclosure
schism
Senior Headman
Sibling Group
Sister's Daughter's Daughter
Sister's Son
Social Drama
Uterine Nephew
Uterine Siblings
Vice Versa
Village Fission
Village Lineage
Village Matrilineage
Virilocal Marriage
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780854962822
- Weight: 740g
- Dimensions: 139 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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With a new foreword by Bruce Kapferer, Professor of Anthropology, James Cook University- A reprint of the seminal anthropological work of the 1960s. Originally published by Manchester University Press.Victor Turner will be remembered as the anthropologist who developed the concept of the ‘social drama', a method used extensively by anthropologists to describe and analyse the social life of a community. In essence, this technique involves analysing social crises within a community over a period of time in order to gain a better understanding of the key principles that govern the social life of the community.This book -- Turner's first ‘social drama' study -- focuses on the village life of the Ndembu of Zambia who were then under British rule. The social constraints, such as the matrilineally-inherited headmanship system, and the various releases from these constraints, provoked periodic crises which caused great disruption and pain. These crises made visible the contradictions between the principles governing social life and the conflicts experienced between individuals and groups when enforcing these principles. Seven social dramas are discussed - all from one family over a period of twenty years -- each substantiated by sociological and demographic research.
Victor Turner formerly of University of Virginia
