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Turner on Rituals and Liminality by Kent Huffman is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Victor Turner defines ritual as a drama that transforms participants and allows them to change society. He classifies rituals as dealing with seasonal, contingent, or life events. Ritual subjects in the liminal period experience ambiguity and equality. In traditional societies, rituals involve total community participation and blur work and play. Post-industrial societies experience liminoid rather than liminal periods due to more individualized leisure activities not tied to work or community obligations.
- Author
- Kent Huffman
- Language
- EN