Victor TurnerThinkers

The Anthropology of experience is an anthropological approach grounded not in structuralism (i.e. Societal structures) but in hermeneutics (i.e. Experience as it is 'lived through').

Anti-structure is liminality redefined to designate the whole period of transition between two structured social states.

Communitas is an unstructured realm of social structure, a structural lacuna where often the normal ranking of individuals is reversed or the symbols of rank inverted.

Communitas is the integrated individual experience of cultural harmony which helps the social fabric to hold together.

The Cultural field is (as distinguished from the social field) that wherein ritual symbols serve as clusters of abstract meanings.

Experience is an integration of cognitive, affective, and volitional elements.

Liminoid is a ritual like a frat initiation or a sport practiced only by some segments of the society.

Meaning is a cognitive structure oriented to the past. It is differentiated from 'value' which is a affective structure of the present moment and 'ends' which are structures of an emerging, goal-directed future. Meaning, as mediated through memory, is key to the structuring of experience in that it provides the reflexive articulation of what would otherwise be the affectively infused experience of mere temporal succession through value.

A Moment of experience is way in which experience reveals itself in five separate moments involving first the perceptual core, followed by the evocation of past images, the revival of associated feelings, and the emergence of meaning and value, and then finally, in the expression of experience in which experience reveals itself.

Myth is a form of indigenous exegesis, treating of origins but derived from transition.