Playlist: Victor Turner - Scholarly Process by Jenna Makowski, Alexander Street Press
This playlist demonstrates how Victor Turner’s studies of rituals and ceremonies among the Ndembu unfolded through the full scholarly process. Beginning with field notes, Turner organized his observations around themes and indexed them. In a later stage of analysis, he pieced the field notes together in order to recreate chronological events and to analyze the temporal structure. He then integrated the same field notes in various iterations of lectures and draft book manuscripts. The playlist also includes photographs as part of his field documentation process, as well as correspondence from the field between Turner and Max Gluckman.
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Ritual Undergone by Some Lunda
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 1: Papers of Victor Witter Turner. Field notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia, p. 236-256: Lunda rituals (Swanandong'a Village)) (14 January 1952) , 12 page(s)
Field note 236-247. Date 14.1.52. Investigators: Mrs. Turner, Isaac Muhandu. Field note on survey made in Swanandong'a and Mombailunga villages of the Lunda ritual histories of those of the villagers available for questioning including verbatim reports of the investigators.
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29 Mar 2016
Words With a Magic or Religious Connotation
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 1: Papers of Victor Witter Turner. Field notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia, p. 212-235: Lunda medicines) (02 February 1951) , 4 page(s)
Field note 213-216. Date 20.2.51. Informant: Musona. Field note listing words with a magic or religious connotation and their English definitions.
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29 Mar 2016
The Nkanga (Girls' Puberty Ceremony)
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 1: Papers of Victor Witter Turner. Field notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia, p. 281 - 323: The Nkanga (girl's puberty ceremony)) (30 December 1950) , 5 page(s)
Field notes 281-285. Date: 31.12.50. Informant: Windson. Field note is a typewritten eyewitness account of the Nkanga, the girl's puberty ceremony, which usually takes place after the girl's first menstruation and lasts from predawn through the next day.
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29 Mar 2016
The Reintegration Phase of the Nkanga
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 1: Papers of Victor Witter Turner. Field notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia, p. 281 - 323: The Nkanga (girl's puberty ceremony)) (01 April 1951) , 5 page(s)
Field note 298-302. Date: 1.4.51. This field note is from a direct account of Edith Turner witnessing the rite of passage ritual, Nkanga.
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29 Mar 2016
Mung'ong'i Ritual
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 4: Papers of Victor Witter Turner Field Notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia, Second Trip, April 1953 - May 1954, p. 1720-1757a: Mung'ong'i ritual) (16 April 1954) , 11 page(s)
Field note 1720-1730. Date: 16.4.54. Field notes on the Mung'ong'i ritual including information about folk tales, parenthood, hunters, menstruation, divination and mukanda.
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29 Mar 2016
Vocabulary of Mukanda Terms
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 5, H: Mukanda Material, Synopsis of book on ritual) , 9 page(s)
Definitions and descriptions of terms used in the Mukanda ritual.
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29 Mar 2016
Mukanda: The Rite of Circumcision
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 5, G: Mukanda) (1959) , 10 page(s)
Working draft of a manuscript titled "Mukanda". Abstract: "The Ndembu circumcision rites, called Mukanda like those of the Chokwe, Luvale and Luchazi, provide an interesting variation on the general pattern. I present an account, based on personal observation and informants' description, of the Ndembu rites, partly to add to the general store of ethnographic information about such rites, and, more importantly, to provide for the kind of analysis I am undertaking in this book. With the latter in mind, I present Mukanda as a set of successive episodes, based primarily on my own observations of a particular performance, with interpolated comments and exegesis of symbolism by Ndembu informants. As in the other chapters of this book the symbolic act and the symbolic object constitute my basic units of study."
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29 Mar 2016
The General Framework of Ndembu Ritual
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 5, I) , 39 page(s)
A lecture about the total system of Ndembu ritual, classified as life crises rituals and rituals of affliction.
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29 Mar 2016
Synposis
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 5, H: Mukanda Material, Synopsis of book on ritual) , 5 page(s)
Synopsis and chapter outline of a book. Abstract: "This book is concerned with four kinds of initiation ritual among Ndembu, two of them life-crisis rituals and the other two being cults of affliction. Special attention is paid to the symbolism and to the norms and values to which symbols refer."
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29 Mar 2016
Socio-Cultural Aspects of Colour Classification in Ndembu Ritual
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 5, I) , 39 page(s)
Iteration of an earlier draft of "Color Classification in Ndembu Ritual Among the Ndembu of N. Rhodesia: Problems in Primitive Classification.
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29 Mar 2016
S.A. and S.I. Third Lecture
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 5, L: Social Anthropology and Sociology I) , 18 page(s)
Third lecture for a Sociology and Social Anthropology course discussing inability to infer thought processes from cultural values including witchcraft.
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29 Mar 2016
Event Notes: Mukanda Ceremony
in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 5, F: Mukanda) , 55 page(s)
Event notes about the Mukanda ceremony distilled from field notes. Topics include: Collection and preparation of strengthening medicine; Consecration of the camp site; Symbolism attached to trees used in the ritual as strengthening medicine
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29 Mar 2016
Letter from Victor Turner to Max Gluckman, November 20, 1951
written by Victor Turner, 1920-1983, in The Papers of Victor Witter Turner, of Private Collection (Box 4: Papers of Victor Witter Turner Field Notes made by Victor and Edith Turner on a Research Trip among the Ndembu, Mwinilunga District, Northern Rhodesia, Second Trip, April 1953 - May 1954, p. 1565-1570: Letter to Max Gluckman. wubinda, meaning of black earth in nkang'a, menstruation, Ihamba at Kajima, divination, Ihamba at Nswanamatung'a: indigenous text, divination...) (20 November 1951) , 8 page(s)
Letter to Max Gluckman dated November 20, 1951 discussing information on social structures, spirits, rituals and politics.
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