Liminality and the modern: living through the in-between

by Thomassen, Bjørn,, (Associate professor)

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Liminality and the Modern offers a comprehensive introduction to this concept, discussing its development and laying out a conceptual and experiential framework for thinking about change in terms of liminality. Applying this framework to questions surrounding the implosion of 'non-spaces', the analysis of major historical periods and the study of political revolution, the book also explores its possible uses in social science research and its implications for our understanding of the uncertaint…

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Full title :Liminality and the modern : living through the in-between / Bjørn Thomassen.

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Publication Date:2014

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Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Farnham, Surrey
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:1 online resource (xi, 250 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781409460817, 1409460819
oclc:ocn882104630
LC Classification:BF175.5.L55
Dewey Decimal:302/.1

pt. I RETRIEVING LIMINALITY WITHIN THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL THOUGHT: FROM ARNOLD VAN GENNEP TO VICTOR TURNER AND BEYOND -- 1. Arnold van Gennep: Fragments of a Life-Work at the Thresholds -- 2. Arnold van Gennep and his Contemporaries: Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss and Gabriel Tarde. Revisiting the Foundations of Sociology and Anthropology -- 3. Liminality Rediscovered: With Victor Turner and Beyond -- 4. Dimensions of Liminality -- pt. II ON THE LIMINAL CONDITIONS OF THE TIMES IN WHICH WE LIVE -- 5. Liminality in the Transition to Modernity: The Case of Thomas Hobbes and Rene Descartes -- 6. Game and Gambling and the Implosion of Liminality: Playing Modernity -- 7. From Liminal to Liminoid to Limivoid: Bungee Jumping and the Quest for Excitement in Contemporary Leisure -- 8. Liminal Politics: Towards an Anthropology of Political Revolutions -- 9. By Way of Conclusion: Out of Liminality.

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Antropologi -- teori, filosofi Gennep, Arnold van Grenzsituation Liminalité Liminality PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology Rites and ceremonies Rites et cérémonies Sociologi -- teori, filosofi Übergang Übergangsritus Van Gennep, Arnold