Heart Of Lightness

by Turner, Edith; Frankenberg, Ronnie

• ISBN13: 9781845451271
• ISBN10: 1845451279
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-30
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

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

List of Illustrations	viii
Acknowledgments	x
Foreword, Ronald Frankenberg	xi
Introduction: A Strangely Directed Path	1	(150)
1 Childhood: Leading to Wordsworth's Presences	8	(26)
2 Courtship and Marriage: Wild Life Force	34	(15)
3 The First Brush with Anthropology	49	(8)
4 Africa: Head over Heels into Ritual	57	(26)
5 Hairpin Bend	83	(18)
6 A Center Out There: Following the Mexican Pilgrim's Instinct	101	(9)
7 Wandering in the Path of a Vision: Ireland	110	(15)
8 Back and Forth: Experiencing Four Religions	125	(14)
9 The Loss of My Life Mate: I was Broken in Half but Had to Become a Whole Person	139	(12)
10 Returning to Africa: Another Door Opens to the Soul	151	(27)
11 Searching for Healing: The Arctic	178	(21)
12 From the Inuit to the Celts: Returning to Ireland	199	(25)
13 A Small Spiritual Group: Cloud Nine	224	(10)
14 Up Front and Arguing: The Spiritual Direction Institute	234	(22)
15 Unknown Realms	256	(18)
16 Ely	274	(9)
Bibliography	283	(6)
Index	289