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Beyond liminality : ontologies of abundant betweenness
Title
Beyond liminality : ontologies of abundant betweenness / Jack David Eller.
ISBN
1003463924
1040038840
1040038883
9781003463924
9781040038840
9781040038888
1032732180
9781032732183
9781032733838
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Copyright Notice Date
©2025
Physical Description
1 online resource (192 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 14, 2024).
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Biographical / Historical Note
Jack David Eller is Head of Anthropology of Religion with the Global Center for Religious Research in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Summary
"Beyond Liminality: Ontologies of Abundant Betweenness examines the concept of liminality in the social sciences and humanities, and advocates for a more critical use of the concept while offering more precise alternatives. Originally conceived in response to the near-universal ritualization of changes of status (i.e., 'rites of passage'), liminality was a welcome and much-needed correction to the reigning static and structural models of culture at the time. However, it soon escapes its initial realm and was enthusiastically--and most uncritically--absorbed by many if not all scholarly disciplines. The very success of the concept suggests that there is something about it that resonates with our own cultural sentiments. However, the assumptions that underlie diagnoses of liminality are seldom noted and even more seldom analyzed and critiqued. This book examines the history of the concept, its evolution, and its current status, and asks whether liminality accurately reflects lived realities which might better be described by fluidity, hybridity, multiplicity, constant motion and recombination, and abundant betweenness. Beyond Liminality: Ontologies of Abundant Betweenness is key reading for scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities interested in ritual, performance, identity formation, rights, ontology, and epistemology"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Eller, Jack David, 1959- Beyond liminality New York, NY : Routledge, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Liminality: A Concept, an Ontology
Beyond Liminality: Comparative Ontologies of Motion and Multiplicity
Beyond Liminality: Genders
Beyond Liminality: Persons
Beyond Liminality: Shamans and Tricksters
Beyond Liminality: Human, Post-human, Transhuman
Conclusion: (Post)Modernity, Permanent Liminality, and the Return of a World in Motion.
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