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The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial.
Victor Turner
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Victor Turner
Age: 63 †
Born: 1920
Born: May 28
Died: 1983
Died: December 18
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Glasgow
Scotland
Victor Witter Turner
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Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise
Victor Turner