Edith Turner (anthropologist)

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Edith Turner (June 17, 1921 – June 18, 2016) was an English-American anthropologist, poet, and post-secondary educator. In addition to collaborating with her husband, Victor Witter Turner, on a number of early socio-cultural research projects concerning healing, ritual and communitas, she continued to develop these topics following his death in 1983, especially communitas.^[1] Edith Turner contributed to the study of humanistic anthropology and was a dedicated social activist her entire life.^[2]