Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality
Mind the Gap
Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality
Mind the Gap
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Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality: Mind the Gap offers an interdisciplinary thinking on “the marginal” within society. Using the framework of Victor Turner’s earlier notions of liminality, the book both challenges Turner’s symbolic anthropology, and celebrates its continued influence across disciplines, and under new theoretical constraints.
Liminality in its simplest forms provides language for meaningful approaches to articulate transition and change. It also represents complex social theories beyond Turner’s classical symbolic approach. While demonstrating the enduring relevance of Turner’s language for expressing transition, this volume keeps an eye toward the validity of critiques against him. It thus theorizes with Turner’s work while updating, even abandoning, some of his primary ideas, when applying it to contemporary social issues.
A central focus of this volume is marginality. Turner recognized that marginals, like liminars, are betwixt and between; however, they lack assurance that their ambiguity will be resolved. This volume explores the dialogic relationship of space and agency, to recognize marginal groups and people, and inquire, without a harmonious resolution, what happens to the marginals? Have race, class, gender, and sexual orientation become the space for thinking about reintegration and communitas? Each chapter examines how marginal groups, or liminal spaces and ideas, destabilize, shape, and affect the dominant culture.
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Zohar Hadromi-Allouche and Michael Hubbard MacKay
Section One: Liminality Without: Marginalized Communities
Chapter One: Layers of Liminality and Marginality in the African Hebrew Israelite Community
Michael T. Miller
Chapter Two: Liberating Liminality in the Contemporary Church of Algeria
Patrick Brittenden
Chapter Three: “Neither here nor there”: Border-crossing and liminal states in Rose Tremain's The Road Home
Maria Antonietta Struzziero
Section Two: Liminality Within: Group Interaction Within the Liminal Space
Chapter Four: Liminal Space and Liminal Place: The Medieval Church Porch
Jamie Ingram
Chapter Five: Hammering in-between: Liminality and Contingency in Artisanal Practice, Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, Mexico
Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff
Chapter Six: Liminality in Time: The Taipei Dance Circle as a Process
Yu-Chun Chen
Chapter Seven: Mormon Polygamy: Liminal or Normative?
Michael Hubbard MacKay
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| Published | Mar 20 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 356 |
| ISBN | 9781793644909 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 20 b/w photos; |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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