Victor Turner

anthropologist · 5 mentions across 1 reading

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Victor Turner is an anthropologist known for theorizing ritual as a structured process of social transformation, particularly through his concepts of liminality and communitas. In these readings on Zinacanteco ceremonial cycles, Turner's framework is being applied to understand how ritual "unwiring and rewiring" of social order operates through bipolar phases and the dialogic tension between formality and masquerade. His approach enables the analysis of how societies use ritual performance to temporarily dissolve and reconstitute their hierarchies and symbolic systems.

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Evon Z. Vogt

Rituals of Reversal as a Means of Rewiring Social Structure

The period extending from December 15 to the last day of the Fiesta of San Sebastián on January 25 is the richest segment of the annual ceremonial calendar of Zinacantan. The complicated rituals that characterize this period dramatize the e…The ceremonial schedule is divided into two major phases: (1) Christmas to New Year’s to Day of Kings; then, following a lull of equal time, (2) a phase of intense activity during the Fiesta of San Sebastián. The two phases are like the two…Why all this bipolarity, especially at this season of the year? What messages are being conveyed? What is the effect on the social system? UNWIRING AND REWIRING THE ZINACANTECO SYSTEM OF ORDER The Zinacantecos may be said to be first unwi…

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