David H. Turner
David Howe Turner is a professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow at Trinity College and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. He has worked with Indigenous Australians since 1969 and has worked with indigenous peoples in Bali, North India, Japan, and Canada. At Toronto, his main area of focus is comparative religion and the role of music in the indigenous societies of Australia, North America, Africa, and India.While conducting his Ph.D. at the University of Western Australia, Turner began his fieldwork with the people of Groote Eylandt, in order to better understand Aboriginal social organization and symbolism. Since then, he has challenged common notions of hunter-gatherer social and spiritual life and sought to bring a deeper understanding of the Australian Aboriginal way of life to the modern world. Indeed, in 1986, after undergoing the second stage of initiation by the Aboriginal people of Groote Eylandt, he was told by his hosts to go back out into the modern world and show its people another way of life, so that they might live more harmoniously with others. Turner was encouraged to become a missionary of sorts, a representative of the Aboriginal world. Provided by Wikipedia
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4by David Pace, Arie de Ruijter, Alain Testart, Jérôme Rousseau, Victor T. King, Jérôme Rousseau, Peter Kloos, B. van Norren, David H. Turner, David S. Moyer, Bruce M. Knauft, J. Miedema, Bernhard Gardi, H.M. Leyten, E. Schlesier, S. Kooijman, Freek Schiphorst, Piet Konings, H. Zevenbergen, Peter Kloos, Jacques Lizot, Peter Kloos, Jacques Lizot, Peter Kloos, Daniel Miller, D. Gerrets, Paul Spencer, Henk Driessen, Raymond C. Kelly, Paul Doornbos, J.-M Péterfalvi, H.W. Bodewitz, B. Bernardi, W.E.A. van Beek, Ákos Östör, C. Baks, A. Appadurai, M.A. van Bakel, B.J. Terwiel, Roland Mischung, B.J. Terwiel, Niels Mulder, R.S. Wassing, Sidney M. Mead, Harriet T. Zurndorfer, Maarten van der Wee, M.A. van Bakel, J. Terrell, J. van GoorGet full text
Published 1987-01-01
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