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L’article se propose de définir les articulations entre les rites et la construction de l’identité dans l’œuvre de Joujou Turenne, conteuse, comédienne, danseuse et scénariste haïtienne, contrainte à l’exil au Québec dans les années 1970.... more
This study explores accounts of the revenant, the walking dead in medieval Britain through the concept of a failure in the ritual process that surrounded death. This concept is used to explore the rituals leading to,... more
This paper focuses on the feedback between the social sciences and the arts as generated by Van Gennep’s ideas, and on the artistic and performative models following the attempt to bridge between artistic and social modes of performances... more
Adolescence and becoming an adult have been frequently analysed by the developmental psychology of life stages of the man. In descriptions of these life stages, psychological categories such as developmental crisis, identity... more
This paper draws from an incident on a construction site when Xhosa workers organised a rite of passage for a fallen colleague. Probing into the history of the industrial, corporate workplace, an anthropological study of the 'Rites of... more
The 1939 family classic film, The Wizard of Oz, based on the beloved children’s tale by L. Frank Baum, represents a modern example of mythologist Joseph Campbell’s model of the hero quest myth. This two-part study begins with a... more
This paper examines Jung’s rebirth archetype in two popular fairy tales, focusing on how it is described, how it specifically functions within the narratives, and on underlying mythopoeic imagery from which the narratives are constructed.... more
It is not an easy task to understand the nature of carnival as it is shown by the many failures of the last century after Mikhail Bakhtin’s work became generally known. My book is an attempt to define carnival in relation to another... more
Les premières années du vingtième siècle sont fertiles en moments, événements et publications qui, rétrospectivement, dénotent tous la recomposition en cours de la « science de l’homme », comme l’appelaient alors ses protagonistes. Une... more
The mīs pî, lit. “washing of the mouth”, was one of the solemn rituals of Ancient Mesopotamia. Its goal was the induction of the cult statue in order to allow its official installation in the temple. For this purpose, a total iden- tity... more
Depuis 2012, Lourdes a connu une baisse de fréquentation par les pèlerins. Mais cette baisse aurait pu être constatée depuis 10 ans. Quelles sont les causes d'une telle baisse et continuera-t-elle? Ce mémoire étudie l'évolution du... more
Folktales have been a dynamic part of society, in the sense that social movements and political structures have found simultaneous representation in the contemporary folktales. This paper tries to read a specific aspect of Thakurma'r... more
Diese Arbeit untersucht die theatralischen Aspekte der neugriechischen Totenklage und ihrer Tradition unter den Ritualtheorien von Arnold van Gennep und Richard Schechner.
Seit dem sogenannten spatial turn hat die Reflexion unterschiedlicher Raumkonzepte in den Kulturwissenschaften Hochkonjunktur. Dabei wird immer wieder auf einen Aspekt verwiesen, der gleichwohl merkwürdig randständig bleibt: der... more
Qu’on les traverse, qu’on les construise, qu’on cherche à les protéger, il existe tout un ensemble de pratiques rituelles spécifiques aux portes que les différentes contributions du recueil vont aborder. Il offre donc diverses réflexions... more
This chapter explores the notion of liminality vis-à-vis mega events (MEs) and their role in the ‘shock and awe’ mechanism of neoliberal urbanisation. In Van Gennep, Turner, and Szakolczai (who defines modernity as a permanent state of... more
Food plays a central role in hospitality in virtually every culture on earth. Eating together— “commensality” is perhaps one of the most basic human social acts, and is imbued with a special ritual quality. In this paper I show that... more
Qui était vraiment Arnold Van Gennep, l'auteur des Rites de passage ? Père fondateur de l'ethnographie française, il oeuvra d'abord dans le champ de l'anthropologie "exotique" et religieuse, s'inscrivant dans les grands débats... more
In Anne Lene Melheim; Håkon Glørstad & Ann Zanette Tsigaridas Glørstad (ed.), Comparative Perspectives on Past Colonisation, Maritime Interaction and Cultural Integration, pp. 109-127, Equinox Publishing. ISBN 9781781790489
Conference paper offering a series of complementary theoretical perspectives on the motif of breaking into a burial mound known from the Old Norse literature. This motif is surprisingly common and it usually follows a specific structure.... more
La Maison des Edrissi est le récit de l’intrusion et de l’installation de révolutionnaires dans la demeure réquisitionnée des derniers membres d’une famille d’aristocrates, les Edrissi. La quête d’identité, à travers la confrontation... more
This study strives to show the culturally reflexive properties of mythological narratives by describing the dynamism stemming from the simultaneous inclusion of various types of temporality and specific usage of space. The basic premise... more
Dr Monique Dahan - The Pseudonyms Ka. Tzetnik and the Other, A new book issued by the Dov Sadan Publishing Project of the Hebrew University, November 4, 2021, 390 pages. This research book has 5 different section: details index of names... more
C’est sur un terrain colonial, l’Algérie, que François Pouillon suit Van Gennep, en invitant le lecteur à parcourir avec lui ses articles, chroniques et son fascinant ouvrage En Algérie, véritable « deuxième livre de l’ethnographe »... more
The text is part of a debate on the possibility of studying the school through the prism of the anthropological category of "rite". By referring myself to Arnold van Gennep and Victor W. Turner's theory of "rites of passage", I pose a... more
Il s’agit de l’introduction que j’ai écrite pour un volume, d’auteurs basés en Estonie, qui tourne autour de la question débattue des incipit et explicit. L’idée plus générale consiste à focaliser l’attention sur ces ‘lieux stratégiques’... more
Anthropology and Egyptology share the same interest in mortuary rituals. However, the higher-order interpretative framework developed by anthropology is not standardly applied by Egyptology. The present study focuses on summarizing a... more
Ho messo alla prova – in un pronto soccorso di un ospedale italiano, pensato ed esperito in prima persona come contesto d’uso specifico e in situazione, sotto forma di gioco linguistico (Wittgenstein) – la nozione di passaggio di Van... more
Dans ce contexte de la pandémie du Covid 19, j'ai été heurté par le sentiment que l'impréparation politique de cette crise sanitaire a conduit en France au sacrifice d'une partie de la population de nos aînés en EHPAD (sorte de CHSLD... more
About the Hajj's Rituals and how to do it (the rules, the provisions and the history), numerous articles have been published. But about analyzing of it with Performative approach, there hasn't been intensive research yet. This study has... more
ÖZ İnsan topluluklarının en temel kültürel örüntülerinden olan ritüeller, kültürün araştırılmasında en çok başvurulan unsurlardandır. Arnold Van Gennep’in “geçiş ritüelleri” kuramı ve bu kuramın üzerine inşa edilmiş olan Victor Turner’a... more
In this article I analyze Van Gennep’s understanding of purity, impurity, and purification and its relationship with ancient Christian texts discussing these subjects. Through this comparison, I show how modern and ancient theories of... more
The Pyramid Texts convey the deceased king, or queen, into the afterlife via numerous paths that provide forward and upward momentum. Within the texts, geographical locations and spatial language proliferate, and it is through this... more
Paper delivered at the "New Comedy, Roman Comedy" panel at the Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting 2022 In this paper, I use van Gennep's three stages of an age-grade rite of passage to propose that Lysidamus' (senex amator)... more
This article revisits Arnold Van Gennep’s Rites de passage from the point of view of gift theory. Gifts emerge as quasi-omnipresent and in association with all sorts as well as all phases of rites of passage in Van Gennep’s text. However,... more