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Liminalité Liminality

Définition

Terme dont l’étymologie se réfère au seuil de la maison, qui est apparu au début du XX^e siècle dans les recherches anthropologiques pour désigner les changements de statuts performés par les rituels de passage. L’expérience de liminalité a des dimensions spatiales et temporelles. Elle peut être appliquée à une variété de sujets : individus, groupes, sociétés, civilisations.

Pour citer : « Liminalité », Performascope : Lexique interdisciplinaire des performances et de la recherche-création, Grenoble : Université Grenoble Alpes, 2021, [en ligne] : http://performascope.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/fr/detail/177845

Perspective

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Citation

« The attributes of liminality or of liminal personae ( threshold people ) are necessarily ambiguous, since this condition and these persons elude or slip through the network of classifications that normally locate states and positions in cultural space. Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention, and ceremonial. As such, their ambiguous and indeterminate attributes are expressed by a rich variety of symbols in the many societies that ritualize social and cultural transitions. »

Victor Turner, The Ritual Process. Structure and Anti-Structure, Ithaca : Cornell Paperback, 1977 [1969], p.95

« Betwixt and between here or there. Not fully transitioned from one thing to another. A doorway is a liminal space, because it marks the boundary between inside and outside, between one room and the next. A caterpillar undergoes a liminal transition period when wrapping itself in a cocoon. A highway is a liminal space between starting point and destination. An airport is a transition point between here and there. »

“Liminality”, Cyborg Anthropology.com, [En ligne] : http://cyborganthropology.com/Liminality (11/03/21)

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Bibliographie

Sthephen Bigger, « Victor Turner, liminality and cultural performance », Journal of Beliefs and Values, 30, 2, 2009, pp.209-212, [en ligne] : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248998505_Victor_Turner_liminality_and_cultural_performance (06/05/21)

Franziska Hoppen, Liminality and Philosophy of the Presence. A new Direction in Political Theory, Oxon : Routledge, 2021

Teodoro Patera, « Liminalité et performance : de l’anthropologie de Victor Turner aux Folies Tristan », Perspectives médiévales, 35, 2014, [en ligne] : https://journals.openedition.org/peme/5025 (06/05/21)

Arpad Szakolczai, « Liminality and Experience. Structuring transitory situations and transformative events », International Political Anthropology, 2, 1, 2009, pp.141-72

Victor Turner, « Liminal to Liminoid », in Play, Flow, and Ritual: An Essay in Comparative Symbology, Rice Institute Pamphlet, The Rice University Studies, 60, 3, 1974, pp.53-92, [en ligne] : https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/63159 (09/06/2021)