Exploring Liminality and Monstrous in Rites of Passage
Delve into the concepts of liminality and the monstrous in rites of passage through the works of Victor Turner. Understand the transitional phase of liminal states and the significance of monsters in teaching cultural realities. Discover the historical construction of adolescence and its societal implications.
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Pop Quiz Define liminality or a liminal state? How does Turner depict the monstrous in rites of passages? Who is G. Stanley Hall? What according to Baxter does the term adolescence do?
Victor Turner -1920-1983 -Born in Scotland and educated in England -After WWII began doing research on Ndembu and earned his PhD in Anthropology -Most famous for thinking about social drama, symbols, and rites of passages. -Precursor for performance studies
Liminal The second stage in a rites of passage as defined by French Ethnographer Arnold Van Gennep. Popularized by Turner Betwixt and Between from the Latin limen meaning threshold. Liminality is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual is complete. Socially invisibility, dead and infant, no property, sacred poverty.
Monstrous Communication of the sacra via action, exhibition, and instruction Three modes of exhibiting and instruction disproportion, monstrous, and mystery My own view is the opposite one: that monsters are manufactured precisely to teach neophytes to distinguish clearly between the different factors of reality, as it is conceived in their culture (Turner, 52).
Adolescence Historical Construction Turn of the Century invention with longer standing 19thcentury roots in boyology and ideas of the savage child. Result of changes of a modern society, urbanization, child labor laws, and immigration. Developmental Sciences, Literature, Education Easy scapegoat The ideal and the real
