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Heart of Lightness: The Life Story of an Anthropologist

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"Edith and Victor Turner were among the most influential researchers and teachers and social and cultural anthropology in the twentieth century. Together they, and Edie alone after Vic's death, raised the idea of participant observation (and indeed of team learning) to heights and depth most anthropologists never achieve." [From the Foreword] This fascinating memoir is a lively testimony to a remarkable partnership and to Edie Turner's own achievements during more than two decades after Victor's untimely death.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword Ronald Frankenberg Introduction: A Strangely Directed Path Chapter 1. Childhood: Leading to Wordsworth’s Presences Chapter 2. Courtship and Marriage: Wild Life Force Chapter 3. The First Brush with Anthropology Chapter 4. Africa: Head over Heels into Ritual Chapter 5. Hairpin Bend Chapter 6. A Center Out There: Following the Mexican Pilgrim’s Instinct Chapter 7. Wandering in the Path of a Vision: Ireland Chapter 8. Back and Forth: Experiencing Four Religions Chapter 9. The Loss of My Life Mate: I was Broken in Half but Had to Become a Whole Person Chapter 10. Returning to Africa: Another Door Opens to the Soul Chapter 11. Searching for Healing: The Arctic Chapter 12. From the Inuit to the Celts: Returning to Ireland Chapter 13. A Small Spiritual Group: Cloud Nine Chapter 14. Up Front and Arguing: The Spiritual Direction Institute Chapter 15. Unknown Realms Chapter 16. Ely Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Edith L. B. Turner (1921-2016) was on the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. She specialized in ritual, religion, healing, and aspects of consciousness, and had done fieldwork among the Ndembu of Zambia, in Mexico, among the Iñupiat of Alaska, and in rural Ireland. Her numerous publications include The Spirit and the Drum (1987), Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing (1992), and Among the Healers: Stories of Ritual and Spiritual Healing around the World (2005).

Review :
“…a bright and very personal journey into the work and life of Edith Turner…an important text for those interested in humanistic anthropology and the life of a remarkable anthropologist that has contributes to the study of ritual, religion, healing, consciousness and many other subjects.  ·  Social Anthropology


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845451271
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 320
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 435 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1845451279
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Life Story of an Anthropologist
  • Width: 152 mm


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