{"product_id":"betwixt-and-between-liminality-and-marginality-mind-the-gap-9781793644893","title":"Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality: Mind the Gap offers an interdisciplinary thinking on “the marginal” within society. Using the framework of Victor Turner’s earlier notions of liminality, the book both challenges Turner’s symbolic anthropology, and celebrates its continued influence across disciplines, and under new theoretical constraints. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiminality in its simplest forms provides language for meaningful approaches to articulate transition and change. It also represents complex social theories beyond Turner’s classical symbolic approach. While demonstrating the enduring relevance of Turner’s language for expressing transition, this volume keeps an eye toward the validity of critiques against him. It thus theorizes with Turner’s work while updating, even abandoning, some of his primary ideas, when applying it to contemporary social issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA central focus of this volume is marginality. Turner recognized that marginals, like liminars, are betwixt and between; however, they lack assurance that their ambiguity will be resolved. This volume explores the dialogic relationship of space and agency, to recognize marginal groups and people, and inquire, without a harmonious resolution, what happens to the marginals? Have race, class, gender, and sexual orientation become the space for thinking about reintegration and communitas? Each chapter examines how marginal groups, or liminal spaces and ideas, destabilize, shape, and affect the dominant culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking liminality as ‘the gap between worlds’ this fascinating edited collection brings new life to the concept. Building on the understanding of liminality first explored by Arnold van Gennep and later developed by Victor Turner, this book provides exciting insights into the practice and meaning of liminality in a variety of contexts. The thirteen chapters are based on solid, original multi- and interdisciplinary research in several different fields of enquiry ranging from religious communities, dance, arts and crafts to church porches. The book not only acknowledges the founding work of van Gennep and Turner, but through the fresh insights offered bring challenging questions to the fore that serve to develop the concept of liminality. In so doing, this book, a valuable resource for all scholars interested in the betwixt and between, shows the on-going value of thinking with and through the liminal. \u003c\/p\u003e -- Hazel Andrews, Liverpool John Moores University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiminality and marginality are two of the most crucial concepts in the social sciences and humanities. But how do they relate to each other? How can we think of the liminal and marginal – together, apart or in juxtaposition? This volume opens up for those crucial questions via a series of fascinating case studies and conceptual discussions, cutting across space and time. Recommended!\u003c\/p\u003e -- Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Mind the Gap: Betwixt and between Liminality and Marginality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZohar Hadromi-Allouche and Michael Hubbard MacKay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection One: Liminality Without: Marginalized Communities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: Layers of Liminality and Marginality in the African Hebrew Israelite Community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael T. Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Liberating Liminality in the Contemporary Church of Algeria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Brittenden\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: “Neither here nor there”: Border-crossing and liminal states in Rose Tremain’s The Road Home\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria Antonietta Struzziero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Two: Liminality Within: Group Interaction Within the Liminal Space\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Liminal Space and Liminal Place: The Medieval Church Porch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamie Ingram\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Hammering in-between: Liminality and Contingency in Artisanal Practice, Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, Mexico\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichele Avis Feder-Nadoff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Liminality in Time: The Taipei Dance Circle as a Process\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYu-Chun Chen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Mormon Polygamy: Liminal or Normative?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Hubbard MacKay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Three: Within and Without: Liminality and Dialogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Liminal Dialogue: Solomon Ibn Verga’s Tale of Ephraim Ibn Sanjo and Kind Pedro I of Aragon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Ziolkowski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: Intermediality: Performing the Liminal in the Dance Work Falling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePauline Brooks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection Four: Liminality as an Agent of Change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: The Pedagogics of Liminality: Ivan Illich and the Critique of Institutional Ritualization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosé R. Irizarry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: Agents of Conversion: Agency of Women in Early Islam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeren Abbou Hershkovits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: Wife and leader: Khadījah as a first follower\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZohar Hadromi-Allouche\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZohar Hadromi-Allouche and Michael Hubbard MacKay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042686337367,"sku":"9781793644893","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793644893.jpg?v=1750955177","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/betwixt-and-between-liminality-and-marginality-mind-the-gap-9781793644893","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}