TEHRAN (IBNA) -- A book by British cultural anthropologist Victor Turner titled ‘The Anthropology ‎of Performance’ (1986) has been published in Persian which introduces him to Iranian ‎readers.‎
This book by Turner who is best known for his work on symbols, rituals, and rites of passage which often referred to as symbolic and interpretive anthropology ‎has been translated into Persian by a team led by Jabbar Rahmani and Musal-Reza Gharbi. Tisa Publishing has released ‘The Anthropology of Performance’ in 289 pages and 300 copies.
Considering social drama, ritual, and postmodern consciousness in relation to the idea of performance, Victor Turner explores the interplay of event, spectacle, audience, and culture and offers new insights into the nature of performance.
Victor Turner was born in Scotland and educated in England. He began his career as a research officer with the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in northern Rhodesia. Best known for his ethnographic studies of ritual and social process among the Ndembu, Turner also produced significant theoretical insights about rites of passage, the psychology of healing, conflict management, the importance of drama and play, and the theory of symbolic interpretation.
He spent much of his career at universities in the United States and was among the leading figures in the turn to symbolic interpretation that marked American anthropology during the 1960s and 1970s.