13 Facts About Victor Turner

Victor Witter Turner was a Scottish cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals, and rites of passage.

Victor Turner was born in Glasgow, Scotland, son to Norman and Violet Turner.

Victor Turner's father was an electrical engineer and his mother a repertory actress, who founded the Scottish National Players.

In 1941, Victor Turner was drafted into World War II, and served as a noncombatant until 1944.

Victor Turner returned to University College in 1946 with a new focus on anthropology.

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Victor Turner later pursued graduate studies in anthropology at Manchester University.

Victor Turner worked in Zambia as research officer for the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute.

Victor Turner completed his PhD at University of Manchester in 1955.

Victor Turner developed the new concept of social drama in order to account for the symbolism of conflict and crisis resolution among Ndembu villagers.

Victor Turner explored Arnold van Gennep's threefold structure of rites of passage and expanding theories on the liminal phase.

Victor Turner noted that in liminality, the transitional state between two phases, individuals were "betwixt and between": they did not belong to the society that they previously were a part of and they were not yet reincorporated into that society.

Victor Turner was a committed ethnographer and produced work on ritual.

Victor Turner developed upon Victor's "anthropology of experience" with a publication on communitas.