TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turner,Victor Witter
TI  - From ritual to theatre: the human seriousness of play 
T2  - Performance studies series
SN  - 0933826168
AV  - GN473 .T84 1982
U1  - 306.4848 23
PY  - 1982///]
CY  - New York City
PB  - Performing Arts Journal Publications
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Theater and society
KW  - Play
KW  - Drama
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Liminal to liminoid, in play, flow, ritual: an essay in comparative symbology -- Social dramas and stories about them -- Dramatic ritual/ritual drama: performative and reflexive anthropology -- Acting in everyday life and everyday life in acting
N2  - ""Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience... We must admire him for this." -- Times Literary SupplementHow is social action related to aesthetics? In what ways do the large and small crises that fill not only the nightly TV news but also our daily lives relate to the genre of theater? Victor Turner deals with these and other questions in a classic study that ranges from anthropology to acting, from everyday life to artistic genres."--Publisher description
ER  -