Liminal spaces are places where boundaries dissolve. They are "betwixt and between", "neither here nor there". Victor Turner introduced the concept of "liminal space": a space of transformation between phases of separation and reincorporation. It represents a period of ambiguity, of marginal and transitional state. Similarly does Arnold van Gennep, while describing rituals of transition. For Gennep, liminal or threshold world is a space between the world of status that the person is leaving..
Liminal spaces are places where boundaries dissolve. They are "betwixt and between", "neither here nor there". Victor Turner introduced the concept of "liminal space": a space of transformation between phases of separation and reincorporation. It represents a period of ambiguity, of marginal and transitional state. Similarly does Arnold van Gennep, while describing rituals of transition. For Gennep, liminal or threshold world is a space between the world of status that the person is leaving and the world of status into which the person is being inducted.
Building Surfer
