The works of anthropologist Victor Turner and theatre director Richard Schechner have been discussed in the Nordic larp circles for decades. What has not been discussed is their auspicious friendship and productive collaboration which created something very much like larp.
This talk will explore these proto-larps combining theatre and ritual which then evolved into performance studies and experiential ethnography. We will look at films and read witness accounts. The talk is based on Mike Pohjola's article in the Solmukohta book At the Limits.