Table of Contents
Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance: An Introduction
Graham St John PART I: PERFORMING CULTURE: RITUAL, DRAMA AND MEDIA
Chapter 1. Toward a Unified Theory of Cultural Performance: A "Reconstructive Introduction" to Victor Turner J. Lowell Lewis
Chapter 2. The Ritualization of Performance (Studies) Ian Maxwell
Chapter 3. Performing "Sorry Business": Reconciliation and Redressive Action Michael Cohen, Paul Dwyer and Laura Ginters
Chapter 4. Liminality in Media Studies: From Everyday Life to Media Events Mihai Coman
Chapter 5. Social Drama in a Mediatized World: The Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence Simon Cottle
PART II POPULAR CULTURE AND RITES OF PASSAGE
Chapter 6. Modern Sports: Liminal Ritual or Liminoid Leisure? Sharon Rowe
Chapter 7. Trance Tribes and Dance Vibes: Victor Turner and Electronic Dance Music Culture Graham St John
Chapter 8. Backpacking as a Contemporary Rite of Passage: Victor Turner and Youth Travel Practices Amie Matthews
Chapter 9. Walking to Hill End with Victor Turner: A Theatre-Making Immersion Event Gerard Boland
PART III: CONTEMPORARY PILGRIMAGE AND COMMUNITAS
Chapter 10. Of Ordeals and Operas: Reflexive Ritualizing at the Burning Man Festival Lee Gilmore
Chapter 11. "Shopping For A Self": Pilgrimage, Identity-Formation and Retail Therapy Justine Digance and Carole Cusack
Chapter 12. Turner Meets Gandhi: Pilgrimage, Ritual and the Diffusion of Non-Violent Direct Action Sean Scalmer
Chapter 13. Dramas, Fields, and ‘Appropriate Education’: The Ritual Process, Contestation, and Communitas for Parents of Special-Needs Children Margi Nowak
PART IV: EDITH TURNER
Chapter 14. An Interview with Edith Turner Matthew Engelke
Chapter 15. Woman/women in "the Discourse of Man": Edie Turner and Victor Turner’s Language of the Feminine Barbara Babcock
Chapter 16. Faith and (Social) Science: Contrasting Victor and Edith Turner’s Analysis of Spiritual Realities Douglas Ezzy
Chapter 17. Challenging the Boundaries of Experience, Performance, and Consciousness: Edith Turner’s Contributions to the Turnerian Project Jill Dubisch
Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
