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In The Ritual Process the anthropologist who put Liminality on the map Victor Turner gave a list of contrasts between Liminality and Structure. There is an uncanny resemblance between these values and the values of Leftism. That is what we are going to explore in this episode which in the final episode in our exploration of Victor Turner's work in this field.
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🧾 Turner's list:
- Communitas/structure
- Unselfishness/selfishness
- Simplicity/complexity
- Homogeneity/heterogeneity
- Equality/inequality
- Absence of status/status
- Absence of rank/distinctions of rank
- Suspension of kinship rights and obligations/kinship rights and obligations
- Absence of property/property
- No distinctions of wealth/distinctions of wealth
- Humility/just pride of position
- Anonymity/systems of nomenclature
- Total obedience/obedience only to superior rank
- Sexual continence/sexuality
- Nakedness or uniform clothing/distinctions of clothing
- Minimization of sex distinctions/maximization of sex distinctions
- Disregard for personal appearance/care for personal appearance
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📚 Further Reading:
- Szakolczai Á (2003) _The Genesis of Modernity_. Routledge studies in social and political thought 36. London ; New York: Routledge.
- Turner VW (1995) _The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure_. The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures 1966. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
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⌛ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
01:31 Liminality
03:39 Leftism
05:09 The Liminal Left - Economic/Political
07:10 Authority and Liminality
10:07 The Cultural Left and Liminality
13:39 Conclusion