Egalitarian dynamics : liminality and Victor Turner's contribution to the understanding of socio-historical process

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 Anthropolog...

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Other Authors: Kapferer, Bruce (Editor), Gold, Marina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2024.
Series:Egalitarianism ; Volume 2
Subjects:
Turner, Victor W. > (Victor Witter), > 1920-1983.
Historical sociology.
Liminality.
Ethnology.
Equality.
Social change.
historical sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : liminality : structure/anti-structure and egalitarian dynamics / Bruce Kapferer
  • The pivoting of the sacred : Arnold van Gennep's patio-temporality of the liminal / Bjorn Thomassen
  • The parable of the foot bridge : creativity and change in the in-between / Paul Stoller
  • Searching for my brother : liminality and blood brotherhood in Rwanda / Christopher C. Taylor
  • The rigours of the liminal : effecting the real in theatrical labour / Daniel Scherer and Martin Holbraad
  • Sacrifice, sovereignty and the dynamics of structure and anti-structure / Rohan Bastin
  • Communitas and practice in the Baltimore Rhythm Festival / Rory Turner
  • Insight meditation : liminality without excitement / Ward Keeler
  • The unbearable weight of music : the intermezzo / Steven M. Friedson
  • Mahishi's rage : communitas and protest at Sabarimala, Kerala / Dinesan Vadakkiniyil
  • Weaving value in the liminal space of the Istanbul Grand Bazaar / Patricia Scalco
  • Vicissitudes of liminality in complex performance systems / John MacAloon
  • France and its purgatory / Andre Iteanu
  • Liminality and communitas : the making of refugees in Switzerland / Marina Gold
  • Open access and the subjunctive mood in scholarly publishing / Kirsten Bell
  • How Book Haram's liminal child witches and child soldiers challenge the capitalist state : an animist critique of neo-liberalism's ideology of 'extremism' / Caroline Ifeka
  • Immanence and process : between 1984 and Brave New World, the Trump Transmutation / Bruce Kapferer and Roland Kapferer
  • Finding likeness : neural plasticity and ritual experience / Robert Turner
  • Afterword : liminality : contemplating the hypothetically potent conjunction of the social and the physical / Don Handelman.

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