...Gennep has shown that all rites of transition are marked by three phases: separation, margin (or limen), and aggregation. The first phase of separation comprises...from an earlier fixed point in the social structure or a set of cultural conditions (a "state"); during the intervening liminal period, the state of the...

...really part of any, and hence not part of the social structure in the fullest sense. The first phase, separation, comprises symbolic behavior signifying the detachment of the individual or group from either an earlier fixed point in the social structure or from an established set of cultural conditions...

...has shown that all rites of transition are marked by three phases: separation, margin (or limeri), and aggregation. The first phase of separation comprises...from an earlier fixed point in the social structure or a set of cultural conditions (a "state"); during the intervening liminal period, the state of the...

...situation." As he says, rites of passage are marked by three phases: separation, margin (or limen), and aggregation. The first phase of separation comprises...from an earlier fixed point in the social structure or a set of cultural conditions (a "state"); during the intervening liminal period, the state of the...

...anthropologist, Victor Turner (1967, 94) has described these three stages in detail: [The first stage] of separation comprises symbolic behavior signifying...from an earlier fixed point in the social structure or a set of cultural conditions (a "state"); during the intervening liminal period the state of the...

...transition) are marked by three phases: separation, limen or margin, and aggregation. The first phase comprises symbolic behavior signifying the detachment...from an earlier fixed point in the social structure or from a relatively stable set of cultural conditions (a cultural "state"); during the intervening...

...suggests, all rites of passage or transition are marked by three phases: separation, margin (or limen), and aggregation. The first phase of separation comprises...signifying the detachment of the individual or group from an earlier fixed point in the social structure. 42. "A rigid assertion of difference," Nancy Chodorow...

...phases make up this generic ritual process: separation, liminality, and reaggregation. The first phase, separation, comprises symbolic behavior signifying the detachment of the individual or group from an earlier fixed point in the social structure. During the intervening "liminal" period, the characteristics...

...inhabitants of the borderlands of community. SEPARATION: THE MOVEMENT AWAY FROM A STATE OF CONFLICT The first phase of separation comprises symbolic behavior...group either from an earlier fixed point in the social structures or a set of cultural conditions. . . . — Victor Turner Groups move into a liminal state...

...in this case a future trainee. becomes separated from the others. Turner writes: The first phase iof separation) comprises symbolic behavior signifying...fixed point in the social structure. from a set of social conditions ia 'state'). or from both. iTurner 1969:94) Separation in a rite of passage is often...