The Legacy of Victor Turner for Current Anthropology of Pilgrimage : The Experience of the Journey to Santiago de Compostela

Abstract

The article deals with the Victor Turner''s anthropology of pilgrimage in the light of the journey to Compostela. The core of the study lies in the comparison of the ethnohistoric as well as ethnographic data and corresponding pilgrims'' competing discourses with the theory.

Keywords

• pilgrimage
• Victor Turner
• Way of Saint James
• experience
• performance
• communitas