Victor Turner
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Victor Turner was a British cultural anthropologist renowned for his influential work on symbols, rituals, and the concept of liminality in social processes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Victor Turner canonical | 2 |
| Victor Witter Turner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592482 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Victor Turner Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Victor Turner]
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A.
Kirkpatrick Durham
Kirkpatrick Durham is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, historically associated with the parish of Kirkpatrick.
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B.
Raymond Firth
Raymond Firth was a prominent New Zealand-born social anthropologist best known for his influential work on economic anthropology and his studies of Tikopia society.
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C.
Edmund Leach
Edmund Leach was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential structuralist analyses of kinship and political systems.
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D.
Paul Schuster Taylor
Paul Schuster Taylor was an American economist and social scientist known for his pioneering studies of migrant farmworkers and his collaborative documentary work with photographer Dorothea Lange during the Great Depression.
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E.
Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton was an American anthropologist known for his work on culture and personality and for helping popularize key concepts such as status and role in social anthropology.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Victor Turner Target entity description: Victor Turner was a British cultural anthropologist renowned for his influential work on symbols, rituals, and the concept of liminality in social processes.
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A.
Kirkpatrick Durham
Kirkpatrick Durham is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, historically associated with the parish of Kirkpatrick.
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B.
Raymond Firth
Raymond Firth was a prominent New Zealand-born social anthropologist best known for his influential work on economic anthropology and his studies of Tikopia society.
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C.
Edmund Leach
Edmund Leach was a prominent British social anthropologist known for his influential structuralist analyses of kinship and political systems.
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D.
Paul Schuster Taylor
Paul Schuster Taylor was an American economist and social scientist known for his pioneering studies of migrant farmworkers and his collaborative documentary work with photographer Dorothea Lange during the Great Depression.
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E.
Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton was an American anthropologist known for his work on culture and personality and for helping popularize key concepts such as status and role in social anthropology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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cultural anthropologist ⓘ human ⓘ ritual theorist ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of London ⓘ |
| birthCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1920-05-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Glasgow ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1983-12-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University College London
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University of Manchester ⓘ |
| employer |
Cornell University
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University of Chicago ⓘ University of Manchester ⓘ University of Virginia ⓘ |
| familyName | Turner ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cultural anthropology
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religious studies ⓘ ritual studies ⓘ symbolic anthropology ⓘ |
| fullName |
Victor Witter Turner
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linked to:
Victor Turner
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| givenName | Victor ⓘ |
| influenced |
performance studies
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religious studies ⓘ ritual studies ⓘ symbolic anthropology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Ndembu ethnography
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analysis of ritual symbols ⓘ concept of communitas ⓘ processual analysis of ritual ⓘ theory of liminality ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors
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From Ritual to Theatre ⓘ Schism and Continuity in an African Society ⓘ The Forest of Symbols ⓘ The Ritual Process ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of anthropology ⓘ |
| researched | Ndembu people ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
performance and drama
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pilgrimage ⓘ ritual process ⓘ symbolism in African societies ⓘ |
| spouse | Edith Turner ⓘ |
| theorized |
communitas in ritual
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liminal phase in rites of passage ⓘ structure and anti-structure ⓘ |
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linked to: Victor Turner