Breaking Boundaries : : Varieties of Liminality /

Breaking Boundaries : : Varieties of Liminality / / ed. by Agnes Horvath, Harald Wydra, Bjørn Thomassen.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Burke, Peter,
Dobry, Michel,
Giesen, Bernhard,
Horvath, Agnes,
Mennell, Stephen,
Mälksoo, Maria,
Peterson, Mark Allen,
Roman, Camil Francisc,
Sakwa, Richard,
Szakolczai, Arpad,
Thomassen, Bjørn,
Wydra, Harald,
HerausgeberIn:
Horvath, Agnes,
Thomassen, Bjørn,
Wydra, Harald,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Figures
  • Introduction: Liminality and the Search for Boundaries
  • Part I Framing Liminality
  • Chapter 1 Liminality and Experience: Structuring Transitory Situations and Transformative Events
  • Chapter 2 Thinking with Liminality: To the Boundaries of an Anthropological Concept
  • Part II Liminality and the Social
  • Chapter 3 Inbetweenness and Ambivalence
  • Chapter 4 The Genealogy of Political Alchemy: The Technological Invention of Identity Change
  • Chapter 5 Critical Processes and Political Fluidity: A Theoretical Appraisal
  • Chapter 6 Liminality and the Frontier Myth in the Building of the American Empire
  • Chapter 7 On the Margins of the Public and the Private: Louis XIV at Versailles
  • Part III Liminality and the Political
  • Chapter 8 Liminality, the Execution of Louis XVI, and the Rise of Terror during the French Revolution
  • Chapter 9 In Search of Antistructure: The Meaning of Tahrir Square in Egypt’s Ongoing Social Drama
  • Chapter 10 Liminality and Democracy
  • Chapter 11 Liminality and Postcommunism: The Twenty-First Century as the Subject of History
  • Chapter 12 The Challenge of Liminality for International Relations Theory
  • Contributors
  • Index

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