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raincitygirl asked me to post a link to my post about liminality and community in BSG.
Here's the first few paragraphs. If you're interested, follow the fake cut. ;)
To show that I am not a total smut-mind, something from the other side of my brain, but also about BSG and definitely more self-indulgent:
As popularized by ethnographer Arnold Van Gennep in the early 1900s, the term “rite of passage” means a ritual that marks a change in a person’s social or sexual status. A rite of passage has, according to Van Gennep, three phases: separation, transition, and reincorporation. Anthropologists Victor Turner and Mary Douglas later expanded on Van Gennep’s theories explaining the transitional phase in terms of “liminality” – a state described as being “betwixt and between” and resulting in, for the space of the liminal experience, “communitas” – an unstructured community in which all members are equal.
In the latter half of the century and today, the phrase “rites of passage” has come into common usage as a referent for any significant event or set of events through which one must pass in order to learn a critical lesson or move on to another stage of life. While the more modern usage lacks the ethnographical precision of Van Gennep’s, the structure of a “rite of passage” and in particular the notions of “liminality” and “communitas” provide an interesting window on the Caprica, Kobol, and Tomb of Athena storylines, as well as the meta-structure of BSG.
Follow me to Caprica, Kobol, and into death
Flyby posting.
raincitygirl asked me to post a link to my post about liminality and community in BSG.Here's the first few paragraphs. If you're interested, follow the fake cut. ;)
To show that I am not a total smut-mind, something from the other side of my brain, but also about BSG and definitely more self-indulgent:
As popularized by ethnographer Arnold Van Gennep in the early 1900s, the term “rite of passage” means a ritual that marks a change in a person’s social or sexual status. A rite of passage has, according to Van Gennep, three phases: separation, transition, and reincorporation. Anthropologists Victor Turner and Mary Douglas later expanded on Van Gennep’s theories explaining the transitional phase in terms of “liminality” – a state described as being “betwixt and between” and resulting in, for the space of the liminal experience, “communitas” – an unstructured community in which all members are equal.
In the latter half of the century and today, the phrase “rites of passage” has come into common usage as a referent for any significant event or set of events through which one must pass in order to learn a critical lesson or move on to another stage of life. While the more modern usage lacks the ethnographical precision of Van Gennep’s, the structure of a “rite of passage” and in particular the notions of “liminality” and “communitas” provide an interesting window on the Caprica, Kobol, and Tomb of Athena storylines, as well as the meta-structure of BSG.
Follow me to Caprica, Kobol, and into death
