Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality
Agnes Horvath
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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. 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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782387664
SKU
V9781782387664
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About Agnes Horvath
Agnes Horvath is a founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal International Political Anthropology and is a visitor in Sociology at Cambridge University. She is the author or co-author of eight books, including most recently, Reclaiming Beauty (co-edited with James B. Cuffe, Ficino Press 2012), Modernism and Charisma (Palgrave 2013), and Statesman: The Politics of Limits and the Liminal (co-edited with ... Read more
Reviews for Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality
[This book treats] a topic with a very broad appeal, namely liminality, treated here as an analytical concept. While liminality has been a widespread concept in anthropology and social theory for decades, largely owing to Victor Turner's seminal work, it has rarely been scrutinized properly, and this volume is to be welcomed; in some ways, this kind of book is ... Read more