Egalitarian Dynamics

Bruce Kapferer is Honorary Professor University College London and Professor Emeritus, University of Bergen, where he is Director of the project Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons, which is supported by an ERC Advanced Grant. His recent publications include Democracy’s Paradox: Populism and its Contemporary Crisis, co-edited with Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (Berghahn Books, 2019). Marina Gold is an Associated Researcher at the University of Zurich. Her recent publications include People and State in Socialist Cuba: Ideas and Practices of Revolution (Palgrave, 2015) and a critical review of the moral turn in anthropology, Moral Anthropology: A Critique, co-edited with Bruce Kapferer (2018, Berghahn Books).

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Introduction: Liminality: Structure/Anti-Structure and Egalitarian Dynamics

Bruce Kapferer



Part I: Liminality and Ethnography



Chapter 1. The Pivoting of the Sacred: Arnold Van Gennep's Patio-Temporality of the Liminal

Bjorn Thomassen



Chapter 2. The Parable of the Foot Bridge: Creativity and Change in the In-Between

Paul Stoller



Chapter 3. Searching for My Brother: Liminality and Blood Brotherhood in Rwanda

Christopher C. Taylor



Chapter 4. The Rigours of the Liminal: Effecting the Real in Theatrical Labour

Daniel Scherer and Martin Holbraad



Chapter 5. Sacrifice, Sovereignty and the Dynamics of Structure and Anti-Structure

Rohan Bastin



Part II: Multiple Meanings of Communitas



Chapter 6. Communitas and Practice in the Baltimore Rhythm Festival

Rory Turner



Chapter 7. Insight Meditation: Liminality Without Excitement

Ward Keeler



Chapter 8. The Unbearable Weight of Music: The Intermezzo

Steven M. Friedson



Part III: Liminoid Spaces and the Politics of Liminality



Chapter 9. Mahishi’s Rage: Communitas and Protest at Sabarimala, Kerala

Dinesan Vadakkiniyil



Chapter 10. Weaving Value in the Liminal Space of the Istanbul Bazaar

Patricia Scalco



Chapter 11. Vicissitudes of Liminality in Complex Performance Systems

John MacAloon



Chapter 12. France and its Purgatory

Andre Iteanu



Chapter 13. Liminality and Communitas: The Making of Refugees in Switzerland

Marina Gold



Chapter 14. Open Access and the Subjunctive Mood in Scholarly Publishing

Kirsten Bell



Chapter 15. How Book Haram's 'Liminal' Child Witches and Child Soldiers Challenge the Capitalist State

Caroline Ifeka



Chapter 16. Immanence and Process: Between 1984 and Brave New World, The Trump Transmutation

Bruce Kapferer and Roland Kapferer



Part IV: Extensions



Chapter 17. Finding Likeness: Neural Plasticity and Ritual Experience

Robert Turner



Afterword: Liminality - Contemplating the Hypothetically Potent Conjunction of the Social and the Physical

Don Handelman



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