Structure vs. Communitas/Antistructure
Victor Turner on the two modes of human society
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The anthropologist Victor Turner's work turns up a theme of cultural polarity that seems to recur throughout the ages from the yin and yang of the ancient Chinese Daoists; Heraclitus's flux and Logos; Jordan Peterson's Chaos and Order and Iain McGilchrist's work of the left- and right-hemispheres.
Turner's duality offers a powerful insight into our Nihil…
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