According to Turner which of the following is true about the way community members perceive those in the liminal state of a rite de passage A They are neither alive nor dead B They are both alive and dead ID: 929707
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Slide1
Betwixt and Between
Slide2Pop Quiz
According to Turner, which of the following is true about the way community members perceive those in the liminal state of a
rite de passage
?
A) They are neither alive nor dead
B) They are both alive and dead
C) They are dangerous
D) They are unclean
E) Both A & B
F) Both C & D
G) All of the above
At the end of the article, Turner explains that communities often surround the neophytes (those people undergoing the
rite de passage
) with a number of images and signs. What are the two primary characteristics of these images that he
discusses?
How does Turner describe the monstrous?
What are the three types of close reading method described in the close reading packet?
According to the packet, what is one of the things you should keep in mind regardless of which close reading method you use?
Slide3Victor Turner
-
1920-1983
-Born in Scotland and educated in England
-After WWII began doing research on
Ndembu
and earned his PhD in Anthropology
-Most famous for thinking about “social drama,” symbols, and rites of passages.
-Precursor for performance studies
Slide4Liminal
The second stage in a rites of passage as defined by French Ethnographer Arnold Van
Gennep
.
Popularized by Turner
“Betwixt and Between” from the Latin “limen” meaning “threshold.”
Liminality
“is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual is complete.”
Socially invisibility, dead and infant, no property, “sacred poverty.”
Slide5Monstrous
Communication of the
sacra
via action, exhibition, and instruction
Three modes of exhibiting and instruction disproportion, monstrous, and mystery
“
My own view is the opposite one: that monsters are manufactured precisely to teach neophytes to distinguish clearly between the different factors of reality, as it is conceived in their culture
” (Turner, 52).
Slide6Young Monsters vs Black Monsters
Slide7Young Black Monsters
Emmet Till
Trayvon Martin
Michael Brown
Tamir
Rice
Cameron Tillman
VonDerrit
Myers Jr.
Laquan McDonald
Carey-Smith-
Viramontes
Diana Showman
See:
“The 14 Teens Killed by Cops Since Michael Brown”
in The Daily Beast
Slide8Close Reading
Definition
A sustained and focused engagement with a piece of text, its content, and its construction.
a
thoughtful, critical analysis of a text that focuses on significant details or patterns in order to develop a deep, precise understanding of the text's form, craft, meanings,
etc.
Strategies
Archeological Dig
Follow the Trail
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