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Wikipedia: Liminality

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The English-language Wikipedia article on liminality, covering the concept's development by Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner and the scope debate over Turner's own restriction of the term. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality
Source Type
Encyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
Tier 3 (secondary reference): a general encyclopedia article used for standard, uncontested definitional and historical claims.
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Wikipedia: Liminality
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the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.
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Claims Backed By This Source (23 claims)

This source backs 23 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 1 connected. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Social Theory and Concepts, 10 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 5 general references.
  • Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

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13

Open Questions

Does liminality, as Victor Turner himself used the term, apply only to small-scale tribal ritual settings, with his own neologism "liminoid" reserved for comparable features of the modern world, or can the term liminality itself be extended to concrete historical and institutional transitions, as Ag

Social Theory and Concepts

Liminality

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Wikipedia: Liminality

Scholarly debate

1

Social Theory and Concepts

Liminality

Holds

2

Social Theory and Concepts

Liminality

Connected

1

Open Questions

Does liminality, as Victor Turner himself used the term, apply only to small-scale tribal ritual settings, with his own neologism "liminoid" reserved for comparable features of the modern world, or can the term liminality itself be extended to concrete historical and institutional transitions, as Ag

General References

6

Open Questions

Does liminality, as Victor Turner himself used the term, apply only to small-scale tribal ritual settings, with his own neologism "liminoid" reserved for comparable features of the modern world, or can the term liminality itself be extended to concrete historical and institutional transitions, as Ag

Social Theory and Concepts

Liminality
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