Egalitarian Dynamics : Liminality, and Victor Turner's Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process /

Liminality: the state of being 'betwixt and between' is one of anthropology's most influential concepts. This volume reconsiders Victor Turner's innovative extension of Arnold Van Gennep's concept of liminality from within the Manchester tradition of Social Anthropology esta...

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Other Authors: Bastin, Rohan (Contributor), Bell, Kirsten (Contributor), Friedson, Steven M. (Contributor), Gold, Marina (Contributor, Editor), Handelman, Don (Contributor), Holbraad, Martin (Contributor), Ifeka, Caroline (Contributor), Iteanu, André (Contributor), Kapferer, Bruce (Contributor, Editor), Kapferer, Roland (Contributor), Keeler, Ward (Contributor), MacAloon, John J. (Contributor), Scalco, Patricia (Contributor), Sherer, Daniel (Contributor), Stoller, Paul (Contributor), Taylor, Christopher C. (Contributor), Thomassen, Bjørn (Contributor), Turner, Robert (Contributor), Turner, Rory (Contributor), Vadakkiniyil, Dinesan (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2024]
Series:Egalitarianism ; 2
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction. Liminality: Structure/Anti-structure and Egalitarian Dynamics
  • Part I. Liminality and Ethnography
  • Chapter 1. The Pivoting of the Sacred: Arnold van Gennep's Spatio-temporality of the Liminal
  • Chapter 2. The Parable of the Footbridge: Creativity and Change in the In-Between
  • Chapter 3. Searching for My Brother: Liminality and Blood Brotherhood in Rwanda
  • Chapter 4. The Rigours of the Liminal: Effecting the Real in Theatrical Labour
  • Chapter 5. Sacrifice, Sovereignty and the Dynamics of Structure and Anti-structure
  • Part II. Multiple Meanings of Communitas
  • Chapter 6. Communitas and Practice in the Baltimore Rhythm Festival
  • Chapter 7. Insight Meditation: Liminality Without the Excitement
  • Chapter 8. Music at the Edge: American Torture and African Trance
  • Part III. Liminoid Spaces and the Politics of Liminality
  • Chapter 9. Mahishi's Rage: Communitas and Protest at Sabarimala, Kerala
  • Chapter 10. Knots, Th reads and Meaning: Liminality and Value in the Carpet Trade of the Istanbul Grand Bazaar
  • Chapter 11. Vicissitudes of Liminality in Complex Performance Systems
  • Chapter 12. France and Its Purgatory
  • Chapter 13. Liminality and Communitas: The Making of Refugees in Switzerland
  • Chapter 14. Open Access and the Subjunctive Mood in Scholarly Publishing
  • Chapter 15. How Boko Haram's Liminal Child Witches and Soldiers Challenge the Capitalist State: An Animist Critique of Neoliberalism's Ideology of 'Extremism'
  • Chapter 16. Extremism as Immanence and Process: The Trump Transmutation
  • Part IV. Extensions
  • Chapter 17. Finding Likeness: Neural Plasticity and Ritual Experience
  • Afterword. Liminality: Contemplating the Hypothetically Potent Conjunction of the Social and the Physical
  • Index