anti-structure

is liminality redefined to designate the whole period of transition between two structured social states.

in 1969 The Ritual Process: Structure and AntiStructure (Chicago: Aldine), in which he refines the concept of liminality to designate the whole period of transition between two structured social states. This moment he calls an anti-structure because the individual is immersed in one of a number of communitas which Turner typologizes. The balance between structure and anti-structure is a constant feature of any society, and the latter reinforces the former through the replacement of celebration of social participation by a human link which transcends the statutory order and is therefore a source of stability. (')

anti structure, n.All

anti structure