45 definitions
The Anthropology of experience (n.) is an anthropological approach grounded not in structuralism (i.e. Societal structures) but in hermeneutics (i.e. Experience as it is 'lived through').
Anti-structure (n.) is liminality redefined to designate the whole period of transition between two structured social states.
Communitas (n.) is an unstructured realm of social structure, a structural lacuna where often the normal ranking of individuals is reversed or the symbols of rank inverted.
Communitas (n.) is the integrated individual experience of cultural harmony which helps the social fabric to hold together.
The Cultural field (n.) is (as distinguished from the social field) that wherein ritual symbols serve as clusters of abstract meanings.
Experience (n.) is an integration of cognitive, affective, and volitional elements.
Liminality (n.) is a generative quality which lends motion to a society by forcing it out of a rigid structure into flowing process.
Liminality (n.) is a moment of ritually generated limbo . . . An antistructural moment of reversal.
Liminality (n.) is a state (and process) betwixt-and between the normal, day-to-day activities of law and order, status, getting and spending.
Liminality (n.) is a temporal interface whose properties partially invert those of the already consolidated order that constitutes any specific cultural 'cosmos'.
Liminality (n.) is an anti-structural moment of reversal which is the creative fond not only for ritual but for culture in general.
Liminality (n.) is the mid-phase of rituals during which participants are in transition from one social status to another.
Liminality (n.) is the nay to all positive structural assertions (and their source), as it is a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise.
Liminoid (n.) is a ritual like a frat initiation or a sport practiced only by some segments of the society.
Meaning (n.) is a cognitive structure oriented to the past. It is differentiated from 'value' which is a affective structure of the present moment and 'ends' which are structures of an emerging, goal-directed future. Meaning, as mediated through memory, is key to the structuring of experience in that it provides the reflexive articulation of what would otherwise be the affectively infused experience of mere temporal succession through value.
A Moment of experience (n.) is way in which experience reveals itself in five separate moments involving first the perceptual core, followed by the evocation of past images, the revival of associated feelings, and the emergence of meaning and value, and then finally, in the expression of experience in which experience reveals itself.
Myth (n.) is a form of indigenous exegesis, treating of origins but derived from transition.