Heart of Lightness : : The Life Story of an Anthropologist / / Edith L. B. Turner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Turner, Edith L. B.,
• MitwirkendeR: Frankenberg, Ronald,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

"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 achievements during more than two decades after Victor's untimely death.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: A Strangely Directed Path -- 1 Childhood: Leading to Wordsworth’s Presences -- 2 Courtship and Marriage: Wild Life Force -- 3 The First Brush with Anthropology -- 4 Africa: Head over Heels into Ritual -- 5 Hairpin Bend -- 6 A Center Out There: Following the Mexican Pilgrim’s Instinct -- 7 Wandering in the Path of a Vision: Ireland -- 8 Back and Forth: Experiencing Four Religions -- 9 The Loss of My Life Mate: I was Broken in Half but Had to Become a Whole Person -- 10 Returning to Africa: Another Door Opens to the Soul -- 11 Searching for Healing: The Arctic -- 12 From the Inuit to the Celts: Returning to Ireland -- 13 A Small Spiritual Group: Cloud Nine -- 14 Up Front and Arguing: The Spiritual Direction Institute -- 15 Unknown Realms -- 16 Ely -- Bibliography -- Index