Victor Turner

Victor Turner was a British cultural anthropologist.

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• Turner spent much time studying rituals and societies with strict social rules.[cite:@colorado2007introducing]

• Myth and ritual have a symbiotic relationship.

  • Rituals often memorialise mythic stories.

  • Myths justified rituals.

  • Example: the Eleusinian mysteries, annual initiations into the cult of Demeter and Persephone, which represented the myth of Persephone's abduction.[cite:@enwiki:1300939188]