Van Gennep and Turner has introduced to all of us a different perspective in looking at and analyzing not only pilgrimage, but also how people understand and form ideas surrounding the change in states and statuses, and give meanings to the different parts of the journey. Through this transition, we will find that many of the societal roles of those who take on the journey are suspended. Particularly, Van Gennep discusses the 3 rites of passage using territorial passages to explain how the journey
without Van Gennep’s (1979) idea of separation, liminal period, and reassimiliation, liminality is the core of not only spirit possession but also the core of many aspects of human life. Through analysis and application I will look at liminality throughout it’s development and expansion and will then apply it to show how it occurs during the process of spirit possession. Liminality is a term that first appeared in publication in 1884, but was later introduced again by Arnold Van Gennep in 1909
Liminality, or the liminal space, can be an effective literary tool used to represent the disparity between ones perception of themselves and the perceptions of those around them, as well as form one of the truest reflections of an author’s episteme. Defined as “the in-between zone” where a person or object is simultaneously part of two categories as well as neither, liminality is found across a variety of literary texts in one form or another. Katherine Mansfield, of New Zealand and England and
In Conrad Philip Kottak’s “Rite of Passage” he mentions the three stages of a rite of passage. Anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep defines these stages as Separation, Margin, and Aggregation. Victor Turner, another anthropologist, focused on Margin, which he referred to as liminality. Not only can a rite of passage be an individual experience, but it can also be a communal experience which Turner called “communitas.” Many of us experience this “communitas” in different ways such as my Hispanic culture
itself to be more complex than a set of ordinary practices. The frameworks established by Emile Durkheim, Arnold Van Gennep, and Victor Turner help to separate the ritual elements present in jury duty from aspects that are more representative of “technological routine”. British structural functionalist Arnold Van Gennep was studying in circumstances very different from the modern moment. Still, Van Gennep’s analysis offers a useful framework for understanding the stages of ritual. If one is willing to
2) French Anthropologist Arnold van Gennep created the phrase ‘Rite of Passage’ to explain
Rites of passage according to Arnold Van Gennep (1960) are experiences of transition that represent growth in life which can be divided into; rites of separation, in which the individual is divorced from their familiar environment, rites of transition, in which the old identity is destroyed
of passage, a theory said by Arnold Van Gennep, the reductionist theory, the cognitive and effective belief by Gombrich, and the Habitus theory by Pierre Bourdieu, were some of the theories identified in the film. When looking at these particular events in the film, this film essentially underlies how religion can be in non-religious things, which would include movies. In this film, Harry Potter experiences the three stages of the rite of passage by Arnold Van Gennep. In the first stage, separation
The Rites of Passage and Liminality Originally developed by anthropologist Arnold van Gennep in the early 20th century in his book Rites de Passage, the term liminality refers to the concept in which participants are in the threshold stage of disorientation and suspension from the previous social norm that they were used to. When an individual goes through a rite of passage—also coined by van Gennep—he is cut off from his “old life” and is born again into a new person. However, before he can fully
In order to truly assess the legitimacy of Durkheim 's functionalist definition of religion, his notion of Social facts, (upon which his theory is constructed) must be examined. Durkheim advocated that amongst the reputable fields of biology, psychology and history, Sociology also warranted a specific focus. It was, for him: a 'sui generis ' "something that had to be explained on its own terms". Sociology was not, for Durkheim, a field that should be susceptible to overlapping subject matter: he