From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play (PAJ Books)

How is social action related to aesthetics, and anthropology to theatre? What is the meaning of such concepts as "work," "play, "liminal," and "flow"? In this highly influential book, Turner elaborates on ritual and theatre, persona and individual, role-playing and performing, taking examples from American, European, and African societies for a greater understanding of culture and its symbols.

• Between Theater and Anthropology
• The Anthropology of Performance (PAJ Books)
• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
• The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)
• Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (Symbol, Myth, and Ritual Series)
• Performance Theory (Routledge Classics) (Volume 84)
• Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
• How to Do Things with Words: Second Edition (The William James Lectures)
• Rabelais and His World
• Performance