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 * Liminality
 * The attributes of liminality or of liminal personae ("threshold people") are necessarily ambiguous (Turner 1969). One's sense of identity dissolves to some extent, bringing about disorientation, but also the possibility of new perspectives. Turner posits that, if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action, it potentially can be seen as a period of scrutiny for central values and axioms of the culture where it occurs (Turner 1969) - one where normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are undone. In such situations, the very structure of society is temporarily suspended.

Chronology

 * Turner, Victor (1986). The Anthropology of Performance. PAJ Publications.
 * Turner, Victor (1986). The Anthropology of Experience. University of Illinois Press.
 * Turner, Victor (1985). Liminality, Kabbalah, and the Media. Academic Press.
 * Turner, Victor (1982). From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play. PAJ Publications.
 * Turner, Victor (1977). "Ndembu Divination and its Symbolism," in: David Landy, ed., Culture, Disease, and Healing: Studies in Medical Anthropology. New York: Macmillan Publishing, pp. 175–182.
 * -- cf. implicature
 * Turner, Victor (1974). Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society. Cornell University Press.
 * Turner, Victor (1969). The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-structure. Aldine de Gruyter.
 * Turner, Victor (1967). The Forest of Symbols. Cornell University Press.
 * Turner, Victor (1969). The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-structure. Aldine de Gruyter.
 * Turner, Victor (1967). The Forest of Symbols. Cornell University Press.
 * Turner, Victor (1967). The Forest of Symbols. Cornell University Press.

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