by Victor Turner · Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432303890
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«La selva de los símbolos» is the social anthropology essay by Victor Turner, published by Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A. in paperback (455 pages).
Classic work of anthropology that analyses the rituals of the Ndembu, a people of northwestern Zambia. Based on fieldwork, Turner studies how ritual symbols condense social, moral, physiological and emotional meanings, and how the performance of ritual produces an exchange between these poles: collective norms become imbued with emotion and sensory impulses are integrated into the social order.
Siglo XXI Anthropology collection. Edition in Spanish, translation by Ramón Valdés del Toro and Alberto Cardín Garay; the original title is «The forest of symbols. Aspects of Ndembu ritual».
For students and researchers of social and cultural anthropology interested in ritual, symbolism and African ethnography.
Victor Witter Turner was a British cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals, and rites of passage. His work, along with that of Clifford Geertz and others, is often referred to as symbolic and interpretive anthropology.
