Breaking boundaries : varieties of liminality / edited by Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen, and Harald Wydra.

Other author Horváth, Ágnes, 1957- editor.
Other author Thomassen, Bjørn (Associate professor), editor.
Other author Wydra, Harald editor.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Berghahn Books, [2015]
Descriptionvi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Liminality.
Rites and ceremonies.
Philosophical anthropology.

Contents Introduction : liminality and the search for boundaries / Harald Wydra, Bjørn Thomassen, Agnes Horvath -- Liminality and experience : structuring transitory situations and -- Transformative events / Arpad Szakolczai -- Uses and meanings of liminality / Bjørn Thomassen -- Inbetweenness and ambivalence / Bernhard Giesen -- The genealogy of political alchemy : the technological invention of identity change / Agnes Horvath -- Critical processes and political fluidity : a theoretical appraisal / Michel Dobry -- Liminality and the frontier myth in the building of the American empire / Stephen Mennell -- On the margins of the public and the private : Louis XIV at Versailles / Peter Burke -- Liminality, the execution of Louis XVI and the rise of terror during the French Revolution / Camil Roman -- In search of antistructure : the meaning of Tahrir Square in Egypt's ongoing social drama / Mark Allen Peterson -- Liminality and democracy / Harald Wydra -- Liminality and postcommunism : the twenty-first century as the subject of history / Richard Sakwa -- The challenge of liminality for international relations theory / Maria -- Malksoo.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) and index.
LCCN 2014039950
ISBN9781782387664 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN1782387668 (hardback : alk. paper)

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