...provides descriptive information about what liminal behaviour often entails, such as being "likened to death, to being in the womb, to invisibility, to darkness, to bisexuality" (1969, 95). Van Gennep limits his discussion of the term to a period of transition in which the person...

...of status or the uncertainty of possessing one. As Turner puts it: "liminality is frequently likened to death, to being in the womb, to invisibility, to...bisexuality, to the wilderness, and to an eclipse of the sun and the moon" (1977: 95). Other features must be added to this description such as the loss of any...

...many societies that ritualize social and cultural transitions. Thus. liminality is frequently likened to death. to being in the womb. to invisibility. to...darkness. to bisexuality. to the wilderness. and to the eclipse of the sun or moon. iTurner 1969: 95) This colourful description might not be the first...

...of status or the uncertainty of possessing one. As Tumer puts it: "liminality is frequently likened to death, to being in the womb, to invisibility, to darkness, to bisexuality, to the wildemess, and to an eclipse of the sun and the moon" (l977: 95). Other features must be added to this...

...In their departure from the everyday, particularly intense modes of being are symbolically "likened to death, to being in the womb, to invisibility, to...wilderness, and to an eclipse of the sun or moon" (1969, 95). Later, in words that warned against an overly dispassionate (ie, structuralist) analysis...

...(Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1969), 125. 87. Ibid., 95. "Thus, liminality is frequently likened to death, to being in the womb, to invisibility, to...wilderness, and to an eclipse of the sun or moon." Ibid. Some may wish to object to my applying the notion of liminality to the assembly gathered for...

...is frequently likened to death, to heing in the womh, to invisihilitv, to darkness, to hisexuality, to the wilderness, and to an eclipse of the sun or moon. Liminal entities, such as neophytes in initiation or puherty rites, may he represented as possessing...

...constitutes such a powerful re-ordering of spatial priorities that it can be likened, as Turner argues, "to death, to being in the womb, to invisibility,...wilderness, and to an eclipse of the sun or moon" (95). As such, we can think of communitas as the site of what Nathaniel Mackey recommends as an amendment...

...many societies that ritualize social and cultural transitions. Thus, liminality is frequently likened to death, to being in the womb, to invisibility, to...wilderness, and to an eclipse of the sun or moon. (Turner 1969: 95) Recall that emotions are also hypotheses from a Peircean perspective, thought-signs...

...the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention . . . Liminality is frequently likened to death, to being in the womb, to invisibility, to...bisexuality, to the wilderness, and to an eclipse of the sun and the moon' (Turner 1968: 95). The men without spirits were truly neither here nor there; they were...