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liminality
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n.1.(Anthropology) that temporary state during a rite of passage when the participant lacks social status or rank, is required to follow specified forms of conduct, and is expected to show obedience and humility.


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It appears that the Leboku festival, once a religious rite characterized by transformation brought about during a period of liminality, has largely been transformed into a theatrical drama that provides liminoid (liminal-like or metaphorical) experiences (Turner 1982:20-60).
Cyberspace thus provides a liminoid space (akin to Victor Turner's liminal space, but evacuated of the transformative power associated with rites of passage) where experimentations with or expressions of otherwise socially unacceptable identities can occur.
Similarly, the value of Bossier's characterization of the commedia dell'arte's expansion beyond the Carnival season to a role in everyday life would have been augmented by a connection with Victor Turner's revolutionary understanding of the transition of theater's role from liminal to liminoid with the change from an agricultural to a manufacturing economy.
 
 
 
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