Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. the state of being liminal
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. that temporary state during a rite of passage when the participant lacks social status or rank, is required to follow specified forms of conduct, and is expected to show obedience and humility.
Examples
“This liminality is developed throughout this series.”
“Note that in HIGHLANDER Macleod's transition to liminality is made explicit in his exile from his clan.”
“They are viewed as more shame - and guilt-ridden and bound by "liminality" -- being in-between two worlds.”
“There are certain times in our lives when we're much more acutely aware of being in transition or flux than in others, and so I think the idea of liminality is still important.”
“In my classroom re-enactments, I am often surprised at the effect on myself, and in Deyang I experienced the sudden insights into my own culture that Turner says are a potential of ritual (a product of "liminality").”
“As for now, Woods occupies the space of what we anthropologists call "liminality," namely the wilderness between one status and another.”
“It is here that I come every morning, this oasis for my soul providing the liminality I seek.”
“It is this role as mediator that imbues woman with an essential liminality to the extent that she concurrently is the instantiation of both nature and culture, and in so being becomes the most likely sacrificial victim in Greek folk song, be it voluntary or involuntary as in 'Sacrifice at the Bridge of Arta'. 4”
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
“This is one reason why the language of the psyche remains bound to a kind of obscurity and liminality — it remains inconsistent, in its very essence, and this inconsistency can't easily be dispensed with.”
“An alternative attribution of this root, to the wide Bantu root * - cona "shame," can be ruled out because, although it might make sense in connection with the liminality of a girl's seclusion, its semantic associations conflict with the celebratory and "coming out" occasions to which Ruvu groups usually applied the term.”
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