Turner,+Victor

=**Victor Turner**=
 * 1920-1983**

Identifications

 * British anthropologist, Later became American Anthropologist
 * Manchester School anthropologist [Link: Wikipedia]
 * he can be assimilated to the Chicago symbolic anthropology tradition, but that's not his lineage

Influenced by

 * Max Gluckman (British anthropologist who introduced the case study method from the law for studying conflicts)
 * Sigmund Freud (for Turner's interest in how emotions are attached to symbols within rituals)
 * In his later career by Kenneth Burke (American rhetorician) and Richard Schechner (performance studies at NYU)
 * Arnold van Gennep: //liminal phase// in three fold structure of rite of passage [link: Wikipedia]
 * Institutes: London, Manchester school, Rhodes-Livingston, Rochester, Chicago, Virginia

Key works

 * Schism and Continuity
 * Forest of Symbols
 * Drums of Affliction
 * The Ritual Process
 * Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors

**Key contributions to medical anthropology**

 * Forest of Symbols
 * Drums of Affliction
 * "Muchona"

Interesting resources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Turner