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Bachelors English University of Manchester
Masters Anthropology University of Manchester
PhD Anthropology University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Victor Witter Turner was a British cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals, and rites of passage. His work, along with that of Clifford Geertz and others, is often referred to as symbolic and interpretive anthropology.

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The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (1971) (6336)
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (1975) (2105)
The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual (1967) (1332)
From ritual to theatre : the human seriousness of play (1986) (1257)
Image And Pilgrimage In Christian Culture (1979) (857)
The anthropology of performance (1986) (699)
Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture: Anthropological Perspectives (1978) (689)
Liminal to Liminoid, in Play, Flow, and Ritual: An Essay in Comparative Symbology (1974) (589)
The Center out There: Pilgrim's Goal (1973) (555)
Social Dramas and Stories about Them (1980) (513)
The anthropology of experience (1986) (490)
From Ritual To Theatre (1982) (420)
Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life (1968) (389)
Frame, Flow and Reflection: Ritual and Drama as Public Liminality (1979) (341)
The drums of affliction: A study of religious processes among the Ndembu of Zambia, (1968) (266)
Celebration Studies in Festivity and Ritual (1984) (243)
Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual (1977) (193)
On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology as Experience (1987) (191)
Symbols in african ritual. (1973) (168)
Essays on the Ritual of Social Relations (1964) (162)
By Means of Performance: Are there universals of performance in myth, ritual, and drama? (1990) (158)
Two Dimensional Man: An Essay on the Anthropology of Power and Symbolism in Complex Society. (1974) (120)
Body, Brain and Culture (1983) (120)
Symbols in Ndembu Ritual (1970) (102)
Process, performance, and pilgrimage : a study in comparative symbology (1979) (86)
Between theater & anthropology (1985) (82)
Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960 (1970) (80)
Images of Anti-Temporality: An Essay in the Anthropology of Experience (1982) (78)
Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual: Symbol, Myth, and Ritual (1975) (75)
Witchcraft and Sorcery: Taxonomy versus Dynamics (1964) (58)
CULTURE IN ACTION : SYMBOLS AND (1986) (50)
By Means of Performance: Magnitudes of performance (1990) (47)
Magnitudes of performance (1990) (46)
Ritual Symbolism, Morality and Social Structure Among the Ndembu (1961) (35)
Sacrifice as Quintessential Process Prophylaxis or Abandonment? (1977) (34)
Mother worship : theme and variations (1982) (27)
Chihamba, the white spirit : a ritual drama of the Ndembu (1962) (24)
Liminality, kabbalah, and the media (1985) (23)
The Lozi peoples of north-western Rhodesia (1952) (21)
Themes in the Symbolism of Ndembu Hunting Ritual (1962) (16)
Ndembu divination : its symbolism & techniques (1961) (15)
The Spatial Separation of Generations in Ndembu Village Structure (1955) (14)
Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960; Vol III, Profiles of Change: African Society and Colonial Rule (1972) (12)
The Spirit and the Drum: A Memoir of Africa@@@On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology as Experience (1987) (11)
Analysis of ritual: metaphoric correspondences as the elementary forms. (1973) (9)
Money Economy Among the Mwinilunga Ndembu; a Study of Some Individual Cash Budgets (1955) (9)
Aspects of Saora Ritual and Shamanism: An Approach to the Data of Ritual (1979) (6)
A Lunda Love Story and Its Consequences: Selected Texts From Traditions Collected by Henrique Dias de Carvalho at the Court of Mwatiamvwa in 1887 (1955) (6)
Some Current Trends in the Study of Ritual in Africa (1965) (4)
The Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia: Social and Religious Studies. By Elizabeth Colson. Manchester University Press, 1962. Pp. xv, 237. 32s. 6d. (1963) (3)
The Syntax of Symbolism in an Ndembu Ritual (1971) (3)
40) On Religion and Ritual (1964) (2)
The Waters of Life: Some Reflections on Zionist Water Symbolism (1968) (2)
見世物の人類学 Spectacle. An Anthropological Inquiry (1985) (1)
"Ethnopoetics: A First International Symposium," (1978) (1)
Religious Paradigms and Political Action: The Murder in the Cathedral of Thomas Becket It (1976) (1)
A Preliminary Survey of Luvale Rural Economy . By C. M. N. White. Rhodes-Livingstone Papers, 29.) Manchester University Press, 1959. Pp. xii + 58, map. 8s. 6d. (1960) (1)
Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960. Profiles of Change: African Society and Colonial Rule. Volume III (1972) (1)
The Anthropology of Experience@@@The Unspeakable: Discourse, Dialogue, and Rhetoric in the Postmodern World (1988) (0)
Agentia Verba Lycamben: On Not Hunting Down Lykambes”) attempts to complicate, as well as clarify, Horace’s famous claim to primacy in Epistles 1.19.19-34 regarding the transplanting (0)
Thresholds of Initiation. Joseph L. Henderson (1968) (0)
Response : Analysis of Ritual: Metaphoric Correspondences as the Elementary Forms (1973) (0)
Anthropological epilogue (1966) (0)
A Response from Kevin Moss (1991) (0)
Commentary on the Essays by Roland A. Delattre and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg (1980) (0)
On Religion and Ritual [Abstract] (1964) (0)
[Prolonged insulin coma]. (1955) (0)

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