liminality

is a generative quality which lends motion to a society by forcing it out of a rigid structure into flowing process.

As such, liminality provides that 'generative quality which lends motion to a society by forcing it out of a rigid structure into flowing process.' Liminality, then, is both generative and anti-structural in its nature.' (132-3) (Grimes, Beginnings in ritual studies 149)

is a moment of ritually generated limbo . . . An antistructural moment of reversal.

Grimes has described this world-within-a-world as 'a moment of ritually generated limbo . . . an antistructural moment of reversal' (Turner 1995: 151)

is a state (and process) betwixt-and between the normal, day-to-day activities of law and order, status, getting and spending.

the state and process which is betwixt-andbetween the normal, day-to-day cultural and social states and processes of getting and spending, preserving law and order, and registering structural status' (Turner 1977: 33)

is a temporal interface whose properties partially invert those of the already consolidated order that constitutes any specific cultural 'cosmos'.

temporal interface whose properties partially invert those of the already consolidated order that constitutes any specific cultural 'cosmos'.

is an anti-structural moment of reversal which is the creative fond not only for ritual but for culture in general.

Turner defines liminality as 'an anti-structural moment of reversal which is the creative fond not only for ritual but for culture in general. (132-3) (Grimes, Beginnings in ritual studies 149)

is the mid-phase of rituals during which participants are in transition from one social status to another.

following Arnold van Gennep, Turner uses 'liminality' primarily in this very specific sense, referring to the mid-phase of rituals during which participants are in transition from one social status to another (Turner 1982: 24-5).

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.

Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise Victor Turner

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