biography
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Turner, Victor Witter
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| lived:
| (1920–83)
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| biography:
| Social anthropologist, born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He studied literature at London University, then anthropology under Max Gluckman (1911–75) at Manchester. He taught at Manchester (1949–63) before moving to the USA, where he became professor at Cornell (1963–8), Chicago (1968–77), and Virginia (1977–83). He carried out fieldwork among the Ndembu of Zambia (1950–4), which resulted in the classic monograph Schism and Continuity in an African Society (1957). In his later work he moved to the analysis of symbolism, as in The Forest of Symbols (1967) and Dramas, Fields and Metaphors (1972). |
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