Ritual Process, The: Structure and Anti-Structure
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Jump to navigationJump to searchTurner, Victor. The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. 1969. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1977.
See chs. 3-5 of this influential book for structured, hierarchical society vs. communitas ("community"): society as an "essential We" (Martin Buber's phrase). Exaggerations and perversions of structure and communitas may be the real-world referents of mechanical and hive worlds in dystopian SF.
