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	Gennep, Arnold Van
		Arnold van Gennep was born in 1873 and educated at the Sorbonne.
		Nevertheless, van Gennep's 1909 concept of "rites of passage" represents his prime contribution to thanatology, and subsequently became a major means of interpreting funerary ritual.
		Van Gennep's energy model of society whose rituals periodically regenerated its power and gave sense to repeating patterns of death and regeneration presaged both Durkheim's basic argument on totemic ritual (made in 1912) and the British anthropologists Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry's late-twentieth-century analysis of death and regeneration.
	www.deathreference.com /En-Gh/Gennep-Arnold-Van.html (544 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Arnold van Gennep
		Arnold Van Gennep was born 23 April 1873 at Ludwigsbourg in Germany and died in 1957 at Bourg-la-Reine in France.
		I van Genneps tilfelle er dette to disipliner som forenes. Hovedtyngden av hans akademiske innsats frem til han skrev sitt mest kjente verk Les rites de passage i 1909 lå innenfor den engelske retningen av antropologi, som befattet seg med temaer som totemisme, tabu, religionen og samfunnets opphav og forholdet rite/myte.
		Comparing the structure of such rituals in diverse cultures, Van Gennep discovered that rites of passage often share similar features, including a period of segregation from everyday life, a liminal state of transition from one status to the next, and a process of reintroduction to the social order with a new standing.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arnold-van-Gennep (530 words)

	Social Anthropological Theories of Ritual Meaning and Function
		Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957) was the first anthropologist to note the regularity and significance of the rituals attached to the transitional stages in the life of humans, and his phrase for these, "the rites of passage," has become a part of the language of anthropology and sociology.
		In the book, Van Gennep states that rites, studied and analyzed in the larger setting of the cultures they pertained to, could illuminate our knowledge of the culture as well as provide understanding of more general processes of cultural evolution.
		Van Gennep includes examples from Africa, India, Australia, the Polynesia, Native American tribes and others in his description of the rites of passage in various cultures.
	www.swcp.com /~ldraper/slim/biblios/morris.html (6518 words)

	Rite of passage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term was popularised by the French ethnographer Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957), in the early part of the twentieth century.
		Joseph Campbell's 1949 text, The Hero with a Thousand Faces and his theory of the journey of the hero were also influenced by van Gennep.
		According to Van Gennep, rites of passage have three phases: separation, liminality, and incorporation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rites_of_passage (784 words)

	CLAL Toolbox- Ritual Thinking: Meyerhoff, Camino, Turner -- Rites of Passage, An Overview
		The structure of rites of passage was clearly articulated early on in the discipline of anthropology by Arnold van Gennep, who in 1907 discerned a fundamental tripartite form inherent in all rites of passage: separation, transition, and incorporation.
		Van Gennep noted that a person had to be separated from one role or status before he or she could be incorporated into a new one.
		Building on van Gennep's work, Victor Turner has generated exceptionally rich and fruitful theories for the study of ritual processes; his works articulating the concept of liminality are especially generative and far-ranging.
	www.clal.org /j8.html (4440 words)

	Victor Turner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Turner gained notoriety by exploring Arnold van Gennep’s threefold structure of rites of passage and expanding theories on the liminal phase.
		Van Gennep's structure consisted of a pre-liminal phase (separation), a liminal phase (transition), and a post-liminal phase (reincorporation).
		Turner noted that in liminality, the transitional state between two phases, individuals were "betwixt and between": they did not belong to the society that they previously were a part of and they were not yet reincorporated into that society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Turner (723 words)

	Rites of Passage
		The idea of status passage rituals was first introduced by the anthropologist Arnold van Gennep, who saw regeneration as the law of life and described rites of passage as a threefold process with phases of separation, segregation, and integration.
		Van Gennep likened society to a house with people moving over thresholds from room to room.
		Van Gennep's scheme was constructed to describe patterns of life in those traditional societies often described as primitive or tribal societies.
	www.deathreference.com /Py-Se/Rites-of-Passage.html (1785 words)

	Gennep - new and used books
		Gennep, Arnold Van - The Rites of Passage
		Arnold Van Gennep (1873-1957) was perhaps the greatest French ethnologist of recent times.
		Van Gennep, Amsterdam 9060121201 text is completely in French/ water damage to top edge of text block, causing slight warping to top edges of interior/ shelf wear to edges of covers/ interior is in tact.
	www.isbn.pl /A-gennep (1026 words)

	Lexikonia.de - Informationen zu Arnold van Gennep
		Van Genneps Konzept der Passagenriten und seine Dreiphasentheorie wurden vor allem von dem britischen Ethnologen Victor Turner weiterentwickelt.
		Van Gennep hat sich in der ersten Hälfte seiner Schaffensperiode vor allem mit außereuropäischen Kulturen befasst.
		Während seiner zweiten Schaffensperiode beschäftigte sich Van Gennep mit der Ethnographie Frankreichs.
	www.lexikonia.de /110376_arnold_van_gennep.htm (155 words)

	CLAL Toolbox- Ritual Thinking: Turner -- Rites of Passage: A Few Definitions
		Van Gennep analyzed these rites into a sequence of three stages: (1) rites of separation, (2) marginal, or liminal, rites, and (3) rites of aggregation, or, more simply, rites of entry into, waiting in, and leaving the intermediate no-man's land.
		The three elements are not equally marked in all rites de passage; according to van Gennep, the element of separation is more important in mortuary or funerary rites, that of aggregation in marriage.
		The marginal rites, marking the period in which an individual is detached from one status but not yet admitted into the next, are most conspicuous in those initiation ceremonies that involve the participants in a long period of isolation, cut off from their normal social contacts.
	www.clal.org /tb_rt002.html (622 words)

	The Navajo House Blessing Ceremony
		Another sociologist, Arnold Van Gennep saw rites, particularly rites of passage as transitions within an individuals life that are marked by specific ceremonies that serve to initiate and make that individual suited for their new position within their society.
		Van Gennep, in The Rites of Passage, says that, "every new house is taboo until, by appropriate rites, it is made noa (secular or profane)" (Van Gennep 24).
		These rites, according to Van Gennep's views on rites of passage, serve as a transition for the hogan from something that is taboo, into something that has a designated place in the Navajo social structure.
	www.jammed.com /~mlb/hogan.html (4654 words)

	Existence on the Threshold: Liminal Characters in the Works of A.S. Byatt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Van Gennep shows a special interest in the transitional phase: it is the period in which a person is in-between the former and the future social position or magico-religious state.
		This quotation bears a strong resemblance to Van Gennep's definition of transitional periods: as long as the transitional persona is not incorporated into the new stage in life, symbolically experiencing the birth of a new self, as it were, her features remain unrecognisable.
		The terminology that Van Gennep, Turner and Douglas use to described liminal phenomena - `unstable', `anti-structural', `deviating from the norm' - imply that liminality is a state that is not part of structure, or better, that forms the no-man's land, the blanks, between the constituents of structure.
	limen.mi2.hr /limen2-2001/lang.html (12481 words)

	turner
		The term liminality is derived from the Latin limen, or threshold, used by Arnold Van Gennep as a metaphor for the social borders crossed through rites of passage.
		Van Gennep's huge contribution to the study of ritual, made early in the century in a monograph entitled Les Rites de Passage, was to note that whether they were wedding, funerals, initiations, or any other celebration of a change of state, life crisis rituals had a similar structure throughout the world.
		For Van Gennep rites of passage were chiefly ways of providing an orderly way to achieve changes in social status, without challenging the underlying symbolic structure of the community.
	www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /ANTHRO/rwpark/courses/Anth311/turner99.htm (874 words)

	van gennep and beyond
		Van Gennep coined a term to describe this process: aggregation.
		He and other social scientists generally believe that rites of passage serve to preserve social stability by easing the transition of cohorts of individuals into new status and prestige roles; in part, they are a social acknowledgement of aging.
		What Lincoln is doing in his writing, is he is pointing out that the reason Van Gennep concluded with his three part pattern of initiation is based upon the fact that "Van Gennep cited very few examples of women's initiations"(100).
	www.stthomasu.ca /~parkhill/rite101/ireps/gennep.htm (5631 words)

	Needham
		Arnold van Gennep, namely reported that it was his reading of Lang's Myth, Ritual, and Religion, when he was a student, that turned him from linguistics and archaeology towards ethnography and such problems as totemism.
		Of all the many sides of Lang's literary labours, the anthropological was his favourite and the subject in which he would most have chosen to excel (Green 1946: 74): van Gennep, when he was a boy, dreamed of having his name in Larousse and of being known for an original work (1967: ix).
		Van Gennep remarked, as Dr Duff-Cooper notes in his commentary, that the best part of Lang's The Secret of the Totem was where he criticised the theories of others, and in that work Frazer was accorded a critical chapter (chapter XI) all to himself.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /csacpub/duff/needham.html (4906 words)

	Double Dialogues - Issue Six: Anatomy & Poetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The structuralist theory of ritual developed by Arnold van Gennep, specifically his notion of the three stage rite-of-passage, and Victor Turner’s adaptation of van Gennep’s second stage as his notion of liminality and shared experience in performance, can be brought to bear on silence in musical performance to help explain its variability and power.
		Van Gennep’s three-stage ‘rite-of-passage’, first published in English in 1960, is the basic ritual-framework from which more contemporary notions, such as Victor Turner’s derive.
		Van Gennep defines human rites-of-passage as ritualised events, formal actions and reactions that signal transition from one group to the next (van Gennep, 1977).
	www.doubledialogues.com /issue_six/goodrich.html (1541 words)

	Arnold van Gennep - Savoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Arnold Van Gennep, né le 23 avril 1873 à Ludwigsbourg (Bade-Wurtemberg), mort en 1957 à Bourg-la-Reine, est un ethnologue et folkloriste français, principalement connu pour son travail concernant les rites de passage et pour son monumental Manuel de folklore français contemporain, demeuré inachevé.
		La méthode développée par Van Gennep procède par enquête et observation directe des faits de folklore vivants, c’est-à-dire des coutumes toujours exécutées sur le terrain d’enquête et observables par le folkloriste.
		Van Gennep a publié un nombre impressionnant d'articles et de monographies ayant trait au folklore.
	savoir.pingouin.org /index.php/Arnold_Van_Gennep (438 words)

	HyperGeertz-Text: Gennep1960Review
		Although van Gennep, one of the original group of Durkheimian sociologists, lived until 1957, this book, originally published in 1908 but not previously translated into English, is the sole basis for his considerable international reputation as a theorist in the field of comparative religion.
		Van Gennep saw the life of any individual in society as being marked by a series of transitions from one social status to another: from youth, to maturity, to old age; from single to married; from childlessness to motherhood; from life to death, and so forth.
		A Brahman youth's ritual bath before initiation as a novice is an example of a rite of separation, a girl's seclusion during her first menses of a rite of transition, and sexual hospitality to a visiting stranger of a rite of incorporation.
	www.iwp.uni-linz.ac.at /lxe/sektktf/gg/GeertzTexts/Gennep1960Review.htm (400 words)

	Studio antropologico
		Van Gennep nacque in Germania, ma trasferitosi fin dalla prima infanzia in Francia, qui si formò compiendo studi di lingue e linguistica orientale, Egittologia e infine Religioni dei popoli non civilizzati all'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes di Parigi.
		L'opera di Van Gennep sembra essere divisa in due fasi, sostanzialmente e temporalmente distinte: nella prima egli si dedicò a studi prettamente etnologici, mentre nella seconda il folklore europeo fu il centro della sua attività.
		Van Gennep ribalta i termini e pone la spinta alla classificazione come un "elemento primordiale del sistema di organizzazione sociale" precedente ogni altra istanza.
	www.studioantropologico.it /public/gennep.htm (415 words)

	Historique du Musée - Histoire et lieux - Info musée - Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel
		Arnold Van Gennep a six ans lorsque ses parents se séparent.
		Van Gennep aborde ces travaux avec originalité et nouveauté.
		En 1908, Van Gennep commence à vivre de ses travaux personnels: conférences, traductions, chroniques régulières et collaboration à diverses revues.
	www.men.ch /infomusee.asp/1-3-418-99-1520-99-5-4-1 (913 words)

	Book Digest -- The Trickster and the Paranormal
		Van Gennep and Turner were particularly well known for their instructive insights on rites and rituals in religion, literature, folklore and psychology.
		Of particular relevance in the study of the trickster is van Gennep and Turner’s focus on social status and social structure.
		Van Gennep described three major stages of the overarching social structure that is typically found in many cultures.
	www.intuitive-connections.net /issue3/book-trickster.htm (9930 words)

	Content Pages of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Social Science
		The concept is strongly associated with the French folklorist Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957), who was among the first to document it as an analytical category in 1908.
		Gennep used the phrase very loosely and provided a plethora of examples of acts that bring about a transition within calendrical cycles, across spatial boundaries, and/or from one social status to another.
		A central theme of Gennep's work is the identification of a threefold sequence that he believed characterizes rites of passage in every culture: separation (preliminal), transition (liminal), and reintegration (postliminal).
	www.hartfordinstitute.org /ency/Rites.htm (358 words)

	Lustfaust - a folk anthology ¦¦ by Collector
		Warwick, UK The Rites of Passage, by the Belgian anthropologist Arnold van Gennep, was one of the first studies of initiation rites.
		Van Gennep established a general framework of initiation rituals, suggesting that a person is re-created as a social individual through these rites.
		“Van Gennepsaw society as a house with rooms and corridors in which passage from one to another is dangerous.
	www.lustfaust.com /collector.php?collector=004 (338 words)

	In a Permanent State of Transition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		These rites have a processual sequence, consisting of three phases: the rites of separation, of transition, and of aggregation (van Gennep 1960: 191, Turner 1969: 94).
		Following van Gennep, Turner developed a theoretical arsenal and vocabulary for the study of this phase with terms like 'liminality', 'anti-structure', or 'communitas'.
		van Gennep, Arnold (1960) The Rites of Passage.
	limen.mi2.hr /limen1-2001/arpad_szakolczai.html (5230 words)

	Rite of Passage Encyclopedia Article @ Sullenly.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957), in the early part of the
		The Hero with a Thousand Faces and his theory of the journey of the hero were also influenced by van Gennep.
		According to Van Gennep, rites of passage have three phases: separation,
	www.sullenly.org /encyclopedia/Rite_of_passage (751 words)

	Rites of Passage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The term rites de passage was first used by Arnold van Gennep in his book of that name (published in 1909 and now available in an English translation).
		Typical rites de passage in the modern sense are those that accompany birth, the attainment of adult status, marriage, and death.
		Van Gennep drew attention to the characteristic symbolism of rites de passage, such as a simulated death and resurrection, or a ritualistic passing through a door or archway (hence the term liminal, from the Latin limen, "threshold").
	faculty.mdc.edu /jmcnair/Joepages/rites_of_passage(1).htm (1738 words)

	Arnold van Gennep Victor Turner Ethnologe Literatur Bourg-la-Reine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Arnold van Gennep Victor Turner Ethnologe Literatur Bourg-la-Reine
		van Genneps Konzept der Passagenriten und seine Dreiphasentheorie wurden vor allem von dem schottischen Ethnologen Victor Turner (1920-83) weiterentwickelt.
		Arnold van Gennep, Übergangsriten (Campus Bibliothek) Ein »Klassiker« der Ethnologie, wenn es um die Wahrnehmung und Erforschung rituellen und symbolischen Verhaltens geht.
	www.marketing-aduni.de /gozkFnVJFdkCkV2ss8AJZw%3D%3D_Arnold_van_Gennep.html (207 words)

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