# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-turner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:05:22.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-turner"
name: "Victor Turner"
slug: "victor-turner"
description: "Victor Witter Turner was a British cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals, and rites of passage. His work, along with that of Clifford Geertz and others, is often referred to as symbolic and interpretive anthropology."
tagline: "British cultural anthropologist (1920-1983)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-05-28"
deathDate: "1983-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.42
  momentum:             0.3125
  historical:           20.67945733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Victor Turner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Victor Turner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Victor Turner"
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    title: "Victor Turner"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump