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Liminality and the modern : living through the in-between / by Björn Thomassen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315592435 (electronic bk.)
  • 1315592436 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version:: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 302/.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BF175.5.L55 T46 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: into liminality. -- Part I. Retrieving liminality within the history of social thought: from Arnold van Gennep to Victor Turner and beyond: Arnold van Gennep: fragments of a life-work at the thresholds. -- Arnold van Gennep and his contemporaries: Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss and Gabriel Tarde. Revisiting the foundations of sociology and anthropology. -- Liminality rediscovered: with Victor Turner and beyond. -- Dimensions of liminality. -- Part II. On the liminal conditions of the times in which we live: Liminality in the transition to modernity: the case of Thomas Hobbes and Rene Descartes. -- Game and gambling and the implosion of liminality: playing modernity. -- From liminal to liminoid to limivoid: bungee jumping and the quest for excitement in contemporary leisure. -- Liminal politics: towards an anthropology of political revolutions. -- By way of conclusion: out of liminality. -- References; Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: into liminality. -- Part I. Retrieving liminality within the history of social thought: from Arnold van Gennep to Victor Turner and beyond: Arnold van Gennep: fragments of a life-work at the thresholds. -- Arnold van Gennep and his contemporaries: Emile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss and Gabriel Tarde. Revisiting the foundations of sociology and anthropology. -- Liminality rediscovered: with Victor Turner and beyond. -- Dimensions of liminality. -- Part II. On the liminal conditions of the times in which we live: Liminality in the transition to modernity: the case of Thomas Hobbes and Rene Descartes. -- Game and gambling and the implosion of liminality: playing modernity. -- From liminal to liminoid to limivoid: bungee jumping and the quest for excitement in contemporary leisure. -- Liminal politics: towards an anthropology of political revolutions. -- By way of conclusion: out of liminality. -- References; Index.

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