Description
| Product ID: | 9781782387664 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Breaking Boundaries |
| Subtitle: | Varieties of Liminality |
| Authors: | Author: Agnes Horvath, Harald Wydra, Bjørn Thomassen |
| Page Count: | 264 |
| Subjects: | Social and ethical issues, Social issues & processes, Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-05-01 |
