Edith Turner Author

Victor Turner (1920-1983) was professor of religion and anthropology at the University of Chicago. He authored many books, including The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society, and On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology As Experience. Edith Turner is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Virginia and editor of the journal Anthropology and Humanism. Deborah Ross is a theologian and writer living in San Francisco.