Breaking boundaries. Varieties of liminality
by Horváth, Ágnes Thomassen, Bjorn Wydra, Harald
Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this volume explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete socia…
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- Full title :Breaking boundaries. Varieties of liminality. / Agnes Horvath; Bjorn Thomassen; Harald Wydra.
Summary
Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this volume explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Berghahn Books Ltd
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:272 pages
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781782387664, 1782387668
- oclc:ocn917361913
- LC Classification:GN
- Dewey Decimal:301
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