For 10 points, name this anthropologist, author of The Forest of Symbols, and popularizer of the concept of "liminality."
This thinker used the example of the white sap of the mudyi tree simultaneously representing milk and the mother-child bond to illustrate the polysemy of symbols, whose meaning he divided into operational, positional and exegetical levels. This man posited that in addition to the "indicative mood" of society's normative framework, there are also "subjunctive" regions of cultural experience that exist outside that framework. His work was inspired by the field work on the Ndembu tribe of Zambia he conducted together with his wife Edith. This thinker, who posited the concept of (*) "anti-structure," borrowed a term from Arnold van Gennep to describe the state of ambiguity produced when operating within the transitional threshold between the separation and reincorporation states of a ritual. For 10 points, name this anthropologist, author of The Forest of Symbols, and popularizer of the concept of "liminality."
This thinker used the example of the white sap of the mudyi tree simultaneously representing milk and the mother-child bond to illustrate the polysemy of symbols, whose meaning he divided into operational, positional and exegetical levels.
Victor (Witter) Turner