Turner, Victor. 1974. Dramas, fields, and metaphors : symbolic action in human society. Book. Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Cornell University Press
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[by] Victor Turnergeneal table, maps 22cmChap 1. Social dramas and metaphors"In moving from experience of social life to conceptualization and intellectual history, I follow the path of anthropologists almost everywhere. Although we take theories into the field with us, these become relevant only if and when they illuminate social reality. Moreover, we tend to find very frequenly that it is not a theorist's whole system which so illuminates, but his scattered idea, his flashes of insihgt taken out of systemic context and applied to scattered data. ... The intuitions, not the tissue of logic connecting them, are what tend to survive in the field experience." (p. 23)concepts that he will deal with are: 'social drama', the processual view of society', 'social anti-structure', 'multivocality', 'polarization of ritual symbols' -- "All are pervaded by the idea that human social life is the producer and product of time, which becomes its measure - an ancient idea that has had resonances in the very different work of Karl Marx, Emile Drukheim, and Henri Bergson." (p. 23-24)"The social world is a world in becoming, not a world in being (except insofar as 'being' is a description of the static, atemporal models men have in their heads), and for this reason studies of social structure