Heart of Lightness

Heart of Lightness"Edith and Victor Turner were among the most influential researchers and teachers and social and cultural anthropology in the twentieth century. Together they, and Edie alone after Vic's death, raised the idea of participant observation (and indeed of team learning) to heights and depth most anthropologists never achieve." [From the Foreword] This fascinating memoir is a lively testimony to a remarkable partnership and to Edie Turner's own

and the local nobleman

A gifted pen-and-ink artist

Through an ethnographic account

and a zone of scholarly and critical convergence beyond regional and disciplinary boundaries

They focus on a whole range of contemporary and historical debates about the relationship between ideas and their context

Roving Mariners provides a comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing

assessment scales

a Dominican tertiary of peasant lineage who became so famous for her raptures

Published posthumously

During the civil war

” On an otherwise average day in his office at an Ohio washing machine factory

Bringing together contributors from the disciplines of linguistics