Breaking boundaries : varieties of liminality /

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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. Base...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Horváth, Ágnes, 1957- (Editor), Thomassen, Bjørn (Associate professor) (Editor), Wydra, Harald (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Subjects:
Liminality.
Rites and ceremonies.
Philosophical anthropology.
Liminalité.
Rites et cérémonies.
Anthropologie philosophique.
philosophical anthropology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Liminality
Philosophical anthropology
Rites and ceremonies
Übergang > Physik
Ritual
Philosophische Anthropologie
Sozialpsychologie
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : liminality and the search for boundaries / Harald Wydra, Bjørn Thomassen, Agnes Horvath
  • Liminality and experience : structuring transitory situations and
  • Transformative events / Arpad Szakolczai
  • Uses and meanings of liminality / Bjørn Thomassen
  • Inbetweenness and ambivalence / Bernhard Giesen
  • The genealogy of political alchemy : the technological invention of identity change / Agnes Horvath
  • Critical processes and political fluidity : a theoretical appraisal / Michel Dobry
  • Liminality and the frontier myth in the building of the American empire / Stephen Mennell
  • On the margins of the public and the private : Louis XIV at Versailles / Peter Burke
  • Liminality, the execution of Louis XVI and the rise of terror during the French Revolution / Camil Roman
  • In search of antistructure : the meaning of Tahrir Square in Egypt's ongoing social drama / Mark Allen Peterson
  • Liminality and democracy / Harald Wydra
  • Liminality and postcommunism : the twenty-first century as the subject of history / Richard Sakwa
  • The challenge of liminality for international relations theory / Maria
  • Malksoo.

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