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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of Turner's liminal stage. The commonality of experience and the breakdown of classes and social rank during liminality is explored. Bibliography lists 0 sources.
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development of a host of useful and powerful anthropological and psychological theories, including Jungs theory of archetypes, and Campbells work with myth and narrative. One such commonality that exists between
cultures is the rite of passage, the ceremonial movement from one social class or rank to another social class or rank, and the pomp and circumstance that often surrounds that
passage. A rite of passage might take many forms, from a trial of manhood that a Papua New Guinea tribesman must undertake to be qualified to marry to the SATs
that students in the west must take to prepare for entrance into university. Victor Turners classic essay "Between and Betwixt" addresses not just these rites of passage, but the class-less
state of liminality that exists between one class and the next, when one is in the midst of a rite of passage. This paragraph helps the student set up the
paper by summarizing Turners article, giving the main points. In Turners text, he emphasizes that the liminal phase is a part of the rite of passage framework. In particular, it
occurs in the middle of a rite of passage, once an individual has committed to the rite and thus transcended their pre-existing rank or class, but has not yet fully
completed the rite, and as such has not yet assimilated into the next rank or class. Turner argues that just as the rites of passage share commonalities between cultures across
the globe, so too does the liminal stage. He hits upon several experiences common to the liminal stage, such as the dissolution of personal identity, the tendency to reflect on
past events and coalesce them into a meaningful narrative that builds toward the future, and the experience of a temporarily classless and thus structure-less existence. He also mentions the possibility
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