ANTHROPOLOGIST

Victor Turner

1920 - 1983

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Victor Witter Turner (28 May 1920 – 18 December 1983) was a British cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals, and rites of passage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Turner has received more than 337,928 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Victor Turner is the 21st most popular anthropologist (down from 20th in 2019), the 1,335th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,143rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Anthropologist.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Victor Turner ranks 21 out of 93. Before him are Eugène Dubois, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Edward T. Hall, Mary Douglas, Mary Leakey, and Marc Augé. After him are Cheikh Anta Diop, Marshall Sahlins, A. L. Kroeber, Ann Dunham, Jacques de Morgan, and Fredrik Barth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Victor Turner ranks 106. Before him are Vilém Flusser, Constanze Manziarly, Henry Heimlich, Pierre Plantard, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, and Jack Warden. After him are Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Väinö Linna, Tonino Guerra, Meliton Kantaria, Heinz Kessler, and Ray Harryhausen. Among people deceased in 1983, Victor Turner ranks 55. Before him are Walther Nehring, Kurt Tank, Karen Carpenter, Norma Shearer, Marianne Brandt, and Horst Schumann. After him are Dennis Wilson, Walter Stennes, Igor Markevitch, Arno Babajanian, Jean Rey, and Tino Rossi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Victor Turner ranks 1,335 out of 8,785. Before him are Martin Gore (1961), Geraldine McEwan (1932), Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France (1424), Blanche of Lancaster (1345), Michael Houghton (1949), and John Russell Hind (1823). After him are Edward Walter Maunder (1851), Malcolm McLaren (1946), Horace Walpole (1717), James Glaisher (1809), Paul Scholes (1974), and Thomas Tew (1649).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Victor Turner ranks 8. Before him are Jane Goodall (1934), Edward Burnett Tylor (1832), Gregory Bateson (1904), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), and Mary Leakey (1913). After him are Edmund Leach (1910), Jack Goody (1919), Ashley Montagu (1905), Marilyn Strathern (1941), Hugh Falconer (1808), and W. H. R. Rivers (1864).

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