ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Clifford Geertz, Max Gluckman, Symbolic Anthropology
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Victor turner was a colleague of max gluckman at the university of. Manchester"s department of social anthropology, and thus a member of the. Manchester school, previously mentioned, before moving to the united states, where he taught at the university of chicago and the university of virginia. Turner had published many important ritual and symbol books and essays. His monograph schism and continuity in an african community (1957/1996) shows the interest in conflict ict and its resolution as characteristic of manchester school previously mentioned. The forest of symbols (1967) is a collection of essays among the nbembu of. Zambia about symbols and rituals, where turner did his big field research. In the symbols forest turner explores how symbols and practices are used to rectify, control, foresee and avoid conflict ict. He also explores a hierarchy of symbol representations, from their social significance and roles to their internalization among individuals.
