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Victor Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Witter Turner (May 28, 1920 – December 18, 1983) was a cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals and rites of passage. His work, along with that of Clifford Geertz an...
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Liminality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liminality (from the Latin word līmen , meaning "a threshold") is a psychological, neurological, or metaphysical subjective, conscious state of being on the "threshold" of or between two different ...
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Part I. Victor Turner: What is This Thing Called Liminality? It will take many more lifetimes to trace out the multifarious and interconnecting ...
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A Biography of the Anthropologist Victor W. Turner ... Victor Turner was born in Glasgow on May 28, 1920. His mother was an actress and his father was an electronical engineer. Influenced by his mother, at eighteen he studied poetry and classics at the University College, London.
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; Transnational Fiesta--1992; Cabanaconde, Peru (population about 4000, mostly Quechua); Cabanaconde Cultural Association in Washington, DC (where about 300 Cabaneños live) ... liminality (Victor Turner, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure) communitas...
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Liminality – Key to Turner is the “betwixt and between” features that have liminal qualities (Turner, 1985: 113). Liminality is defined by Turner (1974: ... Turner, Victor (1967) Carnival, Ritual, and play in Rio de Janeiro. pp. 74- 92. In Alessandro Falassi (Ed.) Time Out of Time: Essays on the Festival. Albuquerque,
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Part I. Victor Turner: What is This Thing Called Liminality? ... Responsible for consolidating 'liminality' in social and cultural theory, he defined it thus: 'a fructile chaos, a storehouse of possibilities, not a random assemblage but a striving after new forms and structures, a gestation process' (Turner 1986:42).
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