He and his wife Edith L. B. Turner co-authored Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture (1978). Death Turner died on 18 December 1983 in Charlottesville, Virginia. After his death, his widow Edith Turner embarked on her own career as an anthropologist. She developed upon Victor's "anthropology of experience" with a publication on communitas. Influence Author Chuck Palahniuk was quoted in The Believer as saying, "So often what I’m doing is dramatizing the writings of Victor Turner, who wrote a lot about liminal and liminoid events." Turner's work on liminality and performance has strongly influenced developments in the field of Performance Studies, particularly due to his friendship and professional collaboration with Richard Schechner with whom he explored the relationship between ritual and theater. Victor Turner Prize The Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing is awarded annually by The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA). Eligible works are "published books in various genres including ethnographic monographs, narratives, essays, biographies, memoirs, poetry, and drama." Kirin Narayan's Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching (1989) was the first Victor Turner Prize winner in 1990. Publishing The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual (1967), Cornell University Press 1970 paperback: Schism and Continuity in an African Society (1968), Manchester University Press The Drums of Affliction: A Study of Religious Processes among the Ndembu of Zambia (1968), Clarendon Press The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (1969), Aldine Transaction 1995 paperback: Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (1974), Cornell University Press 1975 paperback: Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture (1978), with Edith L. B. Turner (co-author), Columbia University Press 1995 paperback: From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play (1982), PAJ Publications paperback: Liminality, Kabbalah, and the Media (1985), Academic Press The Anthropology of Performance (1986), PAJ Publications paperback: The Anthropology of Experience (1986), University of Illinois Press 2001 paperback: References External links Victor Turner, by Beth Barrie Deflem, Mathieu. 1991. "Ritual, Anti-Structure, and Religion: A Discussion of Victor Turner’s Processual Symbolic Analysis." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 30(1):1-25. St John, Graham (ed.) 2008. Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance . New York: Berghahn. . St John, Graham. “Victor Turner.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press. 1920 births 1983 deaths Alumni of University College London Alumni of the University of Manchester Anthropologists of religion Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism