Beyond Liminality

Beyond Liminality: Ontologies of Abundant Betweenness examines the concept of liminality, exposing and critiquing its ontological assumptions. It is key reading for scholars and students across social sciences, humanities, and applied disciplines interested in ritual, performance, change, ontology, and epistemology.

Autorentext

Jack David Eller is Head of Anthropology of Religion with the Global Center for Religious Research in Denver, Colorado, USA.

Klappentext

Beyond Liminality: Ontologies of Abundant Betweenness examines the concept of liminality, exposing and critiquing its ontological assumptions. It is key reading for scholars and students across social sciences, humanities, and applied disciplines interested in ritual, performance, change, ontology, and epistemology.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Liminality: A Concept, an Ontology 2. Beyond Liminality: Comparative Ontologies of Motion and Multiplicity 3. Genders Beyond Liminality 4. Persons Beyond Liminality 5. Shamans and Tricksters Beyond Liminality 6. Human, Post-human, Transhuman Beyond Liminality Conclusion: (Post)Modernity, "Permanent Liminality," and the Return of a World in Motion