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The concept of liminality was first developed in the early twentieth century by folklorist Arnold van Gennep and later taken up by Victor Turner. [4] More recently, usage of the term has broadened to describe political and cultural change as well as rites.
Victor Witter Turner (28 May 1920 – 18 December 1983) 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 .
Liminal beings are entities that cannot easily be placed into a single category of existence. The concept was developed by the cultural anthropologist Victor Turner . It is associated with the threshold state of liminality , from Latin līmen , "threshold".
Edith Turner, Victor's widow and anthropologist in her own right, published in 2011 [3] a definitive overview of the anthropology of communitas, outlining the concept in relation to the natural history of joy, including the nature of human experience and its narration, festivals, music and sports, work, disaster, the sacred, revolution and ...
The word liminal, first attested to in English in 1884, comes from the Latin word limen, meaning 'threshold'. [3] Liminality is a term given currency in the twentieth century by British cultural anthropologist Victor Turner. [4]
Rites of passage have three phases: separation, liminality, and incorporation, as van Gennep described. "I propose to call the rites of separation from a previous world, preliminal rites, those executed during the transitional stage liminal (or threshold) rites, and the ceremonies of incorporation into the new world postliminal rites." [5]
Former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe in the News Sentinel photo studio, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: Money 'disappeared,' and donors to the ...
Victor Turner (1920-1983) understood religion through the lens of rituals, rites of passage and symbolism. He considered religion to be the lynchpin in cultural systems. In his book The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, he proposes his theory of liminality and communitas. He developed liminality from folklorist Arnold Van Gennep.