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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
53
Citations
40693
World Ranking
2206
National Ranking
1062

Overview

Victor Turner was affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States during their academic career. Their contributions to scholarship include book publications rather than journal articles or conference papers.

Among their published works, Turner authored a book titled Blazing the Trail, published by the University of Arizona Press in 2022. This publication has received at least one citation.

Turner's scholarly output did not record frequent co-authors, recent papers, or a variety of publication venues, suggesting a focus on singular or independent research projects or contributions outside typical journal or conference dissemination channels.

The available data does not specify distinct fields, subfields, or research topics covered in Turner's work. There is also no recorded information on awards or distinctions received.

Best Publications

  • The Ritual Process : Structure and Anti-Structure

    Victor Witter Turner

  • The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual

    Victor Witter Turner

  • Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society

    Victor Witter Turner

  • From ritual to theatre : the human seriousness of play

    Victor Witter Turner

  • The anthropology of performance

    Victor Witter Turner

  • The anthropology of experience

    Edward M. Bruner;Victor Witter Turner

  • Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture: Anthropological Perspectives

    Victor Witter Turner;Edith L. B. Turner

  • Image and pilgrimage in Christian culture

    Victor Witter Turner;Edith L. B. Turner;Deborah Ross

  • The Center out There: Pilgrim's Goal

    Victor Turner

  • Liminal to Liminoid, in Play, Flow, and Ritual: An Essay in Comparative Symbology

    Victor Turner

  • Social Dramas and Stories about Them

    Victor Turner

  • The Ritual Process. Structure and Anti-Structure

    Jean-Claude Muller;Victor Turner

  • Schism and continuity in an African society

    H. S. Morris;V. W. Turner

  • Frame, Flow and Reflection: Ritual and Drama as Public Liminality

    Victor Turner

  • Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life

    Victor Witter Turner

  • From ritual to theatre

    Victor Turner

  • From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play@@@Role Playing and Identity: The Limits of Theatre as Metaphor

    A. Theodore Kachel;Victor Turner;Bruce Wilshire

  • The drums of affliction: A study of religious processes among the Ndembu of Zambia,

    Victor Witter Turner

  • Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society

    Robert W. Friedrichs;Victor Turner

  • Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society.

    Guy E. Swanson;Victor Turner

  • The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure

    Peter M. Gardner;Victor W. Turner

  • Liminality and Communitas

    Victor W. Turner

  • Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture

    Mark Glazer;Victor Turner;Edith Turner

  • Schism and continuity in African society : a study of Ndembu village life

    Victor Witter Turner

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