Victor Turner Revisited Ritual as Social Change
by Alexander, Bobby C.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-01-02
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Victor Turner altered the way ritual is viewed, by emphasizing its role as an agent of social change rather than an agent for conserving the status quo. This book reconsiders and clarifies Turner's theory of ritual in response to its frequent misinterpretation and then demonstrates its usefulness for interpreting such phenomena as ritual possession in a politically militant African-American Pentecostal congregation and the countercultural theatrical experiments of Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Laboratory Theater.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| The Problem and Its Significance | p. 1 |
| Method in Treating the Problem | p. 5 |
| Thesis | p. 9 |
| Ritual Anti-Structure | p. 11 |
| Aim and Scope of Part One | p. 11 |
| Turner's Definition of Ritual Reconsidered | p. 13 |
| The Problem Presented by Turner's Definition | p. 13 |
| Turner's Theory of Ritual | p. 16 |
| Turner's Distinction between "Liminal" and "Liminoid" Phenomena | p. 20 |
| Anti-Structure and Its Two Dimensions: Liminality and Communitas | p. 27 |
| Explication of Turner's Theory | p. 27 |
| "Liminality" | p. 29 |
| "Communitas" | p. 33 |
| Setting Misinterpretations of Turner's Theory Straight | p. 45 |
| Tribal Ritual | p. 47 |
| Ritual As Catharsis | p. 50 |
| Ritual Reversal | p. 52 |
| Forms of Ritual Communitas | p. 55 |
| "Spontaneous" and "Normative" Communitas | p. 57 |
| "Ideological" Communitas | p. 60 |
| Turner's Point | p. 61 |
| Pentecostal Possession As: Ritual Anti-Structure | p. 67 |
| Pentecostal Ritual Reconsidered: "Anti-Structural" Dimensions of Possession | p. 71 |
| Ritual Possession In the Scholarly Literature | p. 73 |
| Ritual Possession As Redressive Activity | p. 83 |
| Ritual Liminality at The House of the Lord | p. 86 |
| Ritual Communitas | p. 89 |
| A Turnerian View of Possession | p. 91 |
| "Normative" Communitas | p. 92 |
| "Ideological" Communitas | p. 94 |
| Ideology's Role in Rituals of Protest | p. 95 |
| Political Activism Among Other Pentecostals Worldwide | p. 99 |
| Grotowski's Performance Experiments: As Secular Rituals of Spiritual Healing | p. 105 |
| Grotowski's Ritual Theater | p. 111 |
| Religious Ritual More Broadly Considered | p. 112 |
| Routinization Versus Newly Emerging Ritual | p. 114 |
| Ritual Antecedents in Grotowski's Actor Training Technique | p. 116 |
| The Paratheatrical Projects | p. 120 |
| Grotowski's Diagnosis of Western Culture | p. 123 |
| Ritual Aspects of Grotowski's Projects | p. 125 |
| Grotowski's Experiments As Emerging Rituals | p. 133 |
| "Night Vigil" | p. 133 |
| "Theatre of Sources" | p. 139 |
| Preliminary Conclusions | p. 147 |
| Conclusion | p. 149 |
| Appendices | |
| Appendix A | p. 153 |
| Appendix B | p. 155 |
| Appendix C | p. 159 |
| Appendix D | p. 161 |
| Endnotes | p. 163 |
| Bibliography | p. 181 |
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