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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Communitas"”.
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Reaggregation: Parents of Children With Severe Disabilities Merge Two Worlds
The author suggests borrowing the terms communitas, liminality, and reaggregation from Turner (1974) and adapting them to the parents: initially parents belong to an aggregate of all parents or a communitas; then they learn about their children's disabilities and are thrust into the world of …
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When We Were Monsters: Ethnogenesis in Medieval Ireland 800-1366
… by the Anglo-Irish. Victor Turner’s model of <em>Communitas </em>structures the argument as each stage of liminality represents a turning point in the process of ethnogenesis.</p> <p>1169 marked a watershed moment as it began the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. English nobles brought with them …
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An African Dream Play = Isivuno Sama Phupha : reconstructing the spirit of ubuntu in the contemporary urban 'village' through theatre
… specifically his concepts 'liminality' and 'communitas' and his idea of the social drama. It then traces the evolution of my theatrical research: first through an interest in cultural and religious practices prevalent in the townships around Cape Town and how they might be used to generate …
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Reinforcing and destabilizing myths of origin: Storytelling and biopolitical communities in contemporary theater in French
… Roberto Esposito’s conceptions of immunitas and communitas, are represented in the various plays. While Bernard-Marie Koltès and Marie NDiaye depict community as a pessimistic, bordered immunitas, Aimé Césaire and Wajdi Mouawad represent connections between characters through the more fluid and …
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Documentary Film: Accidental Shakespeare
… word “community” derives from the Latin roots: communitas and communis meaning “fellowship” and “common,” respectively. The word “amateur” derives from the Latin roots: amator meaning “lover.” A community of amateurs, who love to put on plays, exists within the Denton Community Theatre. Their …
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Intézményesített szubkultúra? Az ellenállás mint a formális nevelés eszköze = Institutionalized subculture? Resistance as an instrument of formal education
… a szubkulturalisták összejöveteleit jellemző communitas (a rangbéli különbségek nélküli közösség) élménye; 3) a diskurzus tematikus csomópontjait (különbözőség és sokszínűség, deviancia, marginalitás és ellenállás, communitas és struktúra, önállóság és felelősségvállalás, ill. tudás) és …
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Dancing in the void: Electronic dance music festival attendance as a path to enchantment
… concepts of liminality, postsecularism, and communitas, the research seeks to elucidate how EDM festivals serve as catalysts for experiences of collective effervescence. By analyzing various facets of the modern EDM festival landscape, including the persistence of the subculture's original …
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El Camino de Santiago: a catalyst for transformative tourism in the secular space
… Four main themes of catalysts were observed: communitas, liminality, physical elements, and Spanish elements. The catalysts identified allow individuals to address explicit issues in their lives and tap into unrealized potential for transformation. As the world emerges from the COVID-19 …
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Redes sociales, performance y discurso disidente. Análisis crítico del discurso de la performance tetarte
… del sistema médico clásico, dando paso a una communitas que alberga un discurso alternativo. Este discurso alternativo que se organiza en las redes sociales y se asienta en el espacio de la Performance, encontrará adversidades en el espacio virtual de las redes sociales, como el estereotipo …
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Aging and residence in an urban environment : an anthropological perspective
… in these residences. Turner (1974) notion of 'communitas', or a sense of communality, is considered the crucial element of community. This element is evaluated in relation to a variety of factors: homogeneity, lack of alternative, investment and irreversibility, material distinctions, social …
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The play-element of football fandom: reframing the fluidity of fan identity projects within the post-fandom era
… understanding is grounded in the application of communitas as a mode of playful social performance. Finally, it was found that the shift in football towards being a market-controlled entity has resulted in the increased commodification of fan culture, resulting in significant tensions within the …
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Crises Transformed: The Motivations Behind Engagement in Anarchy
… potential are realized through the embodiment of communitas, or collective liminality--a natural communality that individuals reconnect to engaging in anarchy. I end with an exploration of the possible outcomes and potential futures of anarchy by situating the current political, economic, social …
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Sacred Flame: 100 Years Later Still Bringing Communities Together
… torch relay, high level of liminality and communitas occurred, which is consistent with previous literature. The results indicate that the torchbearer experience not only brought about palpable life changes for the torchbearers themselves but also greatly impacted the people around them and …
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Hospitality in Adventure Tourism:: Being, dwelling, guiding
… security, existential comfort, being, dwelling, communitas and hygge. The findings aim to enable commercial tour providers to develop a better understanding of customer needs, and thus give recommendations for adapting the practices of guides with frontline contact with<br/>guests in order to …
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Laowai: Contested Identity and Imagined Community among Shanghai's Expatriates
… community is best understood as an expression of communitas and that expatriates are liminal figures themselves, stalled in the middle phase of the migration ritual. Indeed, expatriates frequently located themselves between China and the West, unable to become Chinese but also unwilling to be seen …
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Liminality, cancer and art therapy: autoethnographic exploration - living with the tiger
… of limbo, powerlessness /power, playing, communitas and embodiment. This presents an integrative. Improvisational and exploratory synthesis that develops various existing components.<br/><br/>The Methodology evaluates the use of a qualitative bricolage approach located within the …
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Ekphrasis and ethics in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland.
… the relationship between individual and communitas. This study ends by affirming ekphrasis, in its potential for re-imagining aesthetic forms and ethical relationships, as a viable mode for the future of Irish poetry.
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The threshold of 'normality' : transformation in theatre for adults with learning disabilities and recovering from mental illness
… (the product) drama and theatre. Turner's 'communitas' is outlined as a description of the human group connection that occurs during this making and performing. The conceptual relationship between the social form of reality and the aesthetic form of pretence is discussed with reference to …
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Gateway to Africa: The Pilgrimage Tourism of Diaspora Africans to Ghana
… of reenactment, in the ceremonies of communitas, and in the physical structures of the castles. The construction and deployment of social memories rooted in a shared experience of oppression evidenced in the historical examples of the slave trade and colonialism furthers the project of …
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The Lived experience of the popular music festival-goer.
… as festival-goers experienced both a sense of communitas and of personal angst and enmity in relation to others. Finally, whilst hedonistic behaviour led to a sense of heightened excitement and euphoria, it also engendered shock and concern over the extent of some deviant behaviour.
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