Egalitarian Dynamics : Liminality, and Victor Turner's Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-Historical Process.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapferer, Bruce.

Contributor:

Gold, Marina.

Universitetet i Bergen, Funder.

Series:

Egalitarianism Series

Egalitarianism Series ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turner, Victor W. (Victor Witter), 1920-1983.

Turner, Victor W.

Equality.

Ethnology.

Historical sociology.

Liminality.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Bruce Kapferer is Honorary Professor University College London and Professor Emeritus, University of Bergen, where he is Director of the project Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons, which is supported by an ERC Advanced Grant. His recent publications include Democracy's Paradox: Populism and its Contemporary Crisis, co-edited with Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (Berghahn Books, 2019). Marina Gold is an Associated Researcher at the University of Zurich. Her recent publications include People and State in Socialist Cuba: Ideas and Practices of Revolution (Palgrave, 2015) and a critical review of the moral turn in anthropology, Moral Anthropology: A Critique, co-edited with Bruce Kapferer (2018, Berghahn Books). Bruce Kapferer is Honorary Professor University College London and Professor Emeritus, University of Bergen, where he is Director of the project Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons, which is supported by an ERC Advanced Grant. His recent publications include Democracy's Paradox: Populism and its Contemporary Crisis, co-edited with Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (Berghahn Books, 2019).

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No detailed description available for "Egalitarian Dynamics".

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Introduction. Liminality: Structure/Anti-structure and Egalitarian Dynamics

Part I. Liminality and Ethnography

Chapter 1. The Pivoting of the Sacred: Arnold van Gennep's Spatio-temporality of the Liminal

Chapter 2. The Parable of the Footbridge: Creativity and Change in the In-Between

Chapter 3. Searching for My Brother: Liminality and Blood Brotherhood in Rwanda

Chapter 4. The Rigours of the Liminal: Effecting the Real in Theatrical Labour

Chapter 5. Sacrifice, Sovereignty and the Dynamics of Structure and Anti-structure

Part II. Multiple Meanings of Communitas

Chapter 6. Communitas and Practice in the Baltimore Rhythm Festival

Chapter 7. Insight Meditation: Liminality Without the Excitement

Chapter 8. Music at the Edge: American Torture and African Trance

Part III. Liminoid Spaces and the Politics of Liminality

Chapter 9. Mahishi's Rage: Communitas and Protest at Sabarimala, Kerala

Chapter 10. Knots, Th reads and Meaning: Liminality and Value in the Carpet Trade of the Istanbul Grand Bazaar

Chapter 11. Vicissitudes of Liminality in Complex Performance Systems

Chapter 12. France and Its Purgatory

Chapter 13. Liminality and Communitas: The Making of Refugees in Switzerland

Chapter 14. Open Access and the Subjunctive Mood in Scholarly Publishing

Chapter 15. How Boko Haram's Liminal Child Witches and Soldiers Challenge the Capitalist State: An Animist Critique of Neoliberalism's Ideology of 'Extremism'

Chapter 16. Extremism as Immanence and Process: The Trump Transmutation

Part IV. Extensions

Chapter 17. Finding Likeness: Neural Plasticity and Ritual Experience

Afterword. Liminality: Contemplating the Hypothetically Potent Conjunction of the Social and the Physical

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781805395898

1805395890

9781805395904

1805395904