About the concept of liminality the original video animation .hack Liminality original research date December 2010 Liminality from the Latin word l men , meaning a threshold ref liminal , Oxford English Dictionary . Ed. J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner. 2nd ed. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1989. OED Online Oxforde 23, 2007 cf. Wiktionary subliminal subliminal . ref is a psychological, neurological, or metaphysical subjective state, conscious or unconscious, of being on the threshold of or between two different existential planes, as defined in Neurology neurological psychology a liminal state and in the anthropological theories of ritual by such writers as Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner . ref Liminality and Communitas , in The Ritual Process Structure and Anti Structure New Brunswick Aldine Transaction Press, 2008 . ref As developed by van Gennep and later Turner , the term is used to refer to in between situations and conditions that are characterized by the dislocation of established structures, the reversal of hierarchies, and uncertainty regarding the continuity of tradition and future outcomes . ref Agnes Horvath, Bj rn Thomassen, and Harald Wydra, Introduction Liminality and Cultures of Change International Political Anthropology 2009 ref Although initially developed as a means to analyze the middle stage in ritual passages, it is now considered by some to be a master concept in the social and political sciences writ large . ref Bj rn Thomassen, The Uses and Meanings of Liminality International Political Anthropology 2009 p. 51 ref In this sense, it is very useful when studying events or situations that involve the dissolution of order, but which are also formative of institutions and structures. ref Arpad Szakolczai, Liminality and Experience Structuring transitory situations and transformative events International Political Anthropology 2009 p. 141 ref The term has passed into broad popular usage, and arguably at least the very wide extension of the notion of ... more details
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