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Kreowanie doświadczeń liminalnych w szkole z wykorzystaniem metody dramy edukacyjnej

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Jaskulska S.

Studia Edukacyjne

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2016

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issue 42

155-176

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The aim of the paper is to consider the possibility of creating liminal experiences at school with the method of educational drama and the pedagogical potential of such activities. Treated as the medium phase of rite, I define liminality in line with Arnold van Genepp and Victor Turner. By claiming that for many reasons school is a liminal space and showing that the fact that this function is neglected at the cost of the transmission function is a problem, I present drama as a possible antidote.

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Introductory Comments

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Sujecka J.

Colloquia Humanistica

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2014

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issue 3

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Presentation of the third issue of Colloquia Humanistica in the light of Victor Turner's concept of liminality. Wprowadzenie do tematyki trzeciego tomu "Colloquia Humanistica" w perspektywie koncepcji liminalności Victora Turnera.

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The Identity of the Judge in Visual Culture: The Role as Ritual

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Kaczmarek P.

Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne studia nad prawem

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2021

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vol. 13

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issue 3

30-46

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The article attempts to present the identity of the judge through the metaphor of the role as an interactive ritual. The framework of this ritual can be described by means of both intersubjective factors (e.g. legal rules) and individual factors (the subjectivity of the role performer). I apply this conception to the iconic symbol of justice in public space, which is usually associated with the figure of a woman whose eyes are covered with a blindfold, holding the scales of justice in one hand and a sword in the other. It is a visual symbol of the judge; one that is comprehensible to both lawyers and the public. In carrying out this task, I refer to sociological and anthropological research in the field of visual culture. This perspective determines not only the subject matter covered by the theses formulated in the article but also the research method. It is assumed that visual representation constitutes a communication channel that has a great impact on individual and social memory. For this reason, the presentation of the role of the image and the methods of its interpretation is important for the debate about the role of the judge and the image of the judge in public space. This approach to the subject, which consists in shifting the emphasis from text to image, also rehabilitates the significance of visual representation in jurisprudence, a field traditionally dominated by the view that law is a linguistic phenomenon.

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Duszący dym odpalonych rac. O wyzwaniach w etnografii subkultury kibiców piłkarskich

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Kossakowski R., Antonowicz D., Szlendak T.

Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej

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2012

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vol. 8

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issue 3

6-29

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The paper explores a wide range of ethnographic challenges – risky situations, methodological dilemmas, ethical and logistic problems ‒ that we encountered in our field research on most devoted fans of FC Twente Enschede. The analysis is focused on the variety of issues that come along with the process of exploration of largely closed communities of hardcore fans. By doing so, we want to provide some guidelines for those researchers who would want to undertake similar adventures ethnographic tasks in the future. The paper is centered around four major issues. The first one refers to the access to the hermetic world of football fans, while the second section is devoted to the different types of dangers that are linked with experiencing football fandom in the match day. The third one are the consequences of such radical ethnography for the identity of the researcher, resulting from carrying out the research in the mode of “complete immersion.” The fourth issue is the influence of the first three problems (gaining access to a closed group, dangers of full involvement in the actions of a group and changes within the identity of the “immersed one”) on the inner accuracy and outer integrity of the ethnographic description.

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Die Erfahrung der Liminalität in Alexandra Tobors Roman Sitzen vier Polen im Auto. Teutonische Abenteuer

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Szymańska E.

Germanica Wratislaviensia

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2016

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vol. 141

123-134

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Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit dem 2013 veröffentlichten Roman Sitzen vier Polen im Auto. Teutonische Abenteuer von Alexandra Tobor. Als eine Geschichte des Dazwischen-Seins, kann es als ein Diagnostikum des Schwellenzustands verstanden werden. Da in dem Buch eine Migrationsgeschichte erzählt wird, bietet es sich auch an, den Roman nach Turners dreiteiligem Liminalität-Modell zu untersuchen. Demnach sei zu analysieren, inwieweit die Zeit in Polen als eine Bruch- und Trennungsphase, der Aufenthalt im Aussiedlerlager als die Schwellen- oder Übergangsphase und die Zeit in der deutschen Schule als die Angliederungs- oder Reintegrationsphase aufgefasst werden darf. Somit ist der Beitrag ein Versuch der Operationalisierung der genannten Kategorie der Liminalität.

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This article is devoted to Alexandra Tobot’s novel Sitzen vier Polen im Auto. Teutonische Abenteuer published in 2013. As a story of “being in-between” the text enables one to analyse the omnipresent state of being in a limbo. At the same time we deal with a migrational story, so we are given the possibility of analysing the novel in the context of Victor Turner’s three-part liminal model. The author of the article has been looking for an answer to the following question: To what extent can the time spent in Poland be understood as a stage of exclusion, the time spent in the refugee camp as a transitory stage and the time at a German school as the stage of integration? In this way the article is an attempt at putting the category of liminality into operation.

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Street homelessness – on the other side of the mirror

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Ilecki P.

Praca Socjalna

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2020

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vol. 35(1)

35-47

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The article is devoted to the problems of street homelessness and a different perception of this phenomenon in the environment of "non-homeless people" and homeless people. The author presents a peculiar ritual of transition from "normal" life into a crisis of homelessness. The study involved 22 homeless people and was conducted in the form of free interview and graphic mapping of the "world map" modeled on the Maslow's pyramid of needs with particular emphasis on basic needs. The implementation of these needs as well as higher-order needs is carried out in an alternative way, different from the ones adopted in social norms.

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„Teraz, myślę, ale wcale nie” Zdrój Barbary Klickiej jako narracja maladyczna

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Kotuła D.

Prace Literaturoznawcze

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2020

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issue 8

101-113

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This article presents Barbara Klicka’s novel Zdrój as an example of an illness narrative.The novel is discussed in the context of both other examples of the genre and the theoretical worksdevoted to the topic. The fact she is experiencing illness determines the protagonist’s existence andher perception of the world. It influences her emotions. As a hypersensitive individual, she is ableto recognise the mechanisms of oppression embedded in the process of treatment, such as the objectificationof patients. The narrator’s status is peculiar – she is not losing the battle with her illness,neither is she recovering. She is a “wounded storyteller,” remaining in a liminal state. Illness is oneof the essential elements of the protagonist’s identity, and not simply the theme of her story butrather a condition without which the story would not exist.

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Liminalność i poznanie w Smudze cienia Josepha Conrada. Między uniwersalnym a kontekstualnym rozumieniem inicjacji

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Szkaradnik K.

Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2014

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vol. 5

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The axis of "The Shadow-Line" by Joseph Conrad is the issue of initiation in the seaman craft and, at the same time crossing the threshold of adulthood. The author of the article, referring to the concept of the rites of passage of van Gennep, Turner and Eliade, as well as the model of Campbell’s mythic “hero’s journey”, analyses the process and anthropological implications of this initiation and considers to what extent the rites de passage are universal, and to what extent they are contextual. The ship crew turns out to be a communitas, a community of the liminal phase of the rite of passage, and the protagonist must realize the model-archetype in concrete circumstances. Even though the plot resembles the structure of a magical tale, one may find there the cultural reality of seamen’s work and the Victorian era.

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Human Enhancement and the Concept of Liminality1

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Popper M.

Human Affairs

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2015

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vol. 26

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issue 2

128-139

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The article considers human enhancement from the perspective of liminality. It defines the concept of liminality, introduced by ethnologist van Gennep in an attempt to generalise the rites of passage. It shows how, thanks to Turner, this concept has spread beyond anthropology to characterise the many situations ‘betwixt and between’ associated with transitioning from the original social structure to the new one. The article points out that, by definition, liminal situations break down traditional structures; hence, polemical debates on whether to allow human enhancement cannot be conducted from the position of existing normative standards. It argues, on the contrary, that these must be fundamentally expanded so as to reflect the current transitional phase from treatment to enhancement and that preparations must be made for the policies and institutions that will deal with the consequences. Otherwise, we will face threat of a new kind of totalitarianism.

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Byzantine spirit of the Undead and its legacy in the Sick Man of Europe

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Tešan J., Davison J.

Przegląd Narodowościowy – Review of Nationalities

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2018

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vol. 8

21-38

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This paper examines the source and consequences of permanent liminality in the political-legal administration of the Byzantine Empire. The paper argues ambiguous and incomplete identities of individuals, groups, and society associated with certain authoritarian political arrangements and consequent arrested liminal period(s) contributed to the decline of the Empire. Further, and significantly, the unresolved situation of disaggregated identity, or spirited away demos, persisted in the Ottoman Era and continues to infect contemporary socio-political affairs in regions in the Balkans and other countries of the former Soviet Union which now seek to balance the interests of a nation-state with the diversity of Europe. The paper does not consider the Orthodox Spirit, but rather analyzes the role of pseudo-intellectuals and sophists who derail the democratic and philosophical Hellenist traditions with authoritarian policies and tools. The research compares and links the institutional attempts of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires to manage and manipulate differences and distinctions through mechanisms such as theatricalization and the millets. The argument concludes that these strategies created the basis for the perpetualization of the sick man of Europe to the extent they focused on juggling the distinctions and identities of the empires rather than pursuing the development of the democratic self. Thus, in liminality is revealed and contained undead and viral authoritarian spirits, sometimes manifested in populist or extremist ethnic leaders, whose technologies trick the demos and disrupt the democratic imagination.

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Social Relations of Urban Children in the Liminal Time of the Pandemic Period

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Nowicka M.

The New Educational Review

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2022

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vol. 70

34-44

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This paper analysed the social relations of Polish children during the SARSCoV- 2 pandemic. The period of isolation and remote learning was approached as a transitional time using Victor Turner’s concept of liminality. The concept offered a new perspective on children’s experiences during the regime of health protection constraints and the resulting limitations. The research material was collected using focus group interviews with 41 urban children aged 7 and 9 to describe liminal features of their everyday life and characterise their social interactions. The findings reveal the risks and the potential of the pandemic period with respect to the social world and its construction by children. The most important observation concern is that educators and caregivers exploit children’s aversion to mediated interaction and assistance in reconstructing the world of actual interaction of children using creative rituals within the family and at school.

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LIMINALITY: BLACK DEATH 700 YEARS LATER. WHAT LESSONS ARE FOR US FROM THE MEDIEVAL PANDEMIC?

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BEDYŃSKI W.

Society Register

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2020

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vol. 4

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issue 3

129-144

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Black Death, global plague of the 14th century deeply changed the society of Medieval Europe. This unexpected catastrophe killed from 30 to 60 per cent of the continent’s population remaining the most deadly of all known wars, epidemics or natural disasters up to date1. It was an impulse to a profound transformation of European society, religiosity and art that opened doors for the Renaissance. Time of the catastrophe had a clearly liminal character, well described in Boccaccio’s Decameron. It is far too early to predict the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the world in long-time perspective, as we know little about how and when the disaster will end, but mechanisms of the liminal period are already to be seen and can be described, so is the influence of the virus on global economy, mobility, culture. There are similarities even in human reactions – from the hostility towards Asians (pogroms of Jews as a reaction to the Black Death) to ‘corona-parties’ (similar to the plays described by Boccaccio).

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Liminal Fragility of Rave – an Autoethnographic Study Reflecting Insider’s Stay in the Field

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Orszulik E. A.

Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)

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2023

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vol. 33

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issue 1

53 - 67

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The study deals with the phenomenon of rave culture in the Czech Republic, to which only little social attention is currently paid. The article in particular reflects an insider’s stay in the field, while applying prevailing autoethnographic method. Attention is paid to questions exploring raves from the perspective of ritualism, which is conceptually framed in the theory of liminality, as discussed by Victor Turner. Emphasis is also put on the situation of the rave, which for many participants provides space for spiritual and transcendental experiences through which one can authentically discover his/her own identity and find his/her place in the world. The basic attribute, shaping a true rave, is to construct a safe-space for all participants, so that a space with an absolute respect can emerge. The ravers strictly define themselves against the mainstream club entertainment, a party that lacks implicit rules and the philosophy of rave. A significant feature of the rave is its longevity and excessive behaviour, when, within a collective experience, the ravers repetitively dance all night to produced electronic music.

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Liminality and hybridity: consequences of living between two worlds. Louise Erdrich’s tracks’ Pauline Puyat as a case study

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Illán Nevado S.

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature

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2022

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issue 3

56-65

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In this paper, I analyze the concept of liminality and the negative collateral consequences it might bring to the liminal and hybrid character. The definition of liminality is goingto be analyzed as the most characteristic trait of Pauline Puyat’s personality, a mixed- blood character in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks. As a half-breed female, Pauline belongs to both and to none of the two traits that make up her identity. This duality causes in her many contradictory sentiments of isolation, loneliness and jealousy that will gradually disturb her mind and, eventually, she will act in an incoherent manner. By having two identities, Pauline is expected to enjoy her multicultural frame. Contrarily, Pauline Puyat’s liminality and hybridity affects her own self and, at some points, others’.

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Liminal Lives: Navigating In-Betweenness in the Case of Bulgarian and Italian Migrants in Brexiting Britain

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Genova E., Zontini E., Genova E., Zontini E.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2020

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vol. 9

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issue 1

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Reflections of the Hidden Duchess and the Moon King: The Tabula Scalata and the Engaged Beholder in Sixteenth-Century Italy

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Wijnands C.

Ikonotheka

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2019

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vol. 29

79-101

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A tabula scalata consists of triangular slats painted on two sides and attached to a panel, creating a “double image”. Sometimes, a mirror was placed at straight angles of the upper frame, allowing the beholder to see both painted sides at the same time – but only when standing in the right position. This contribution analyses how these scarcely studied devices relied on the beholder’s active participation to convey intertwined layers of artistic, scientific, political, and poetic meanings. To do so, it discusses two sixteenth-century case studies. The first is a lost painting created in French royal court circles around 1550 and subsequently making its way to Rome as a diplomatic gift. The device combined a portrait of Henry II of France, a moon symbol, and a puzzle-ridden poem to convey interrelated political and poetic meanings. The second painting is Ludovico Buti’s Portrait of Charles III of Lorraine and Christina de’ Medici. It was commissioned by the Medici, and originally hung in a room filled with maps and geographical devices. This article considers three aspects central to the paintings’ reception: motion, sensory perception, and ideology. Operating in an intellectual culture fuelled by curiosity and designed to evoke wonder, these devices aimed to prolong the beholders’ attention by establishing thresholds within the artistic experience. As such, they straddled the vague boundaries between painting, scientific instrument, and poem to stimulate the beholders’ senses and involve them in an interactive game of meaning-making.

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Post-communist city text in Košice, Slovakia as a liminal landscape

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Chloupek B. R.

Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development

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2019

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vol. 23

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issue 2

71-75

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During the communist period in Slovakia (1948-1989), street toponyms and monuments were a few of the many realms of ideological infusion by the communist government. Renaming streets and establishing monuments in honor of local and international socialist figures was intended to have an aggregate efect on public consciousness in a way that helped legitimize the political rule of the communist regime. However, because the nature of socialist commemorations is fundamentally more complex that those of other competing ideologies like nationalist movements, these commemorations took on complex and sometimes contradictory meanings in the public memory that, in some cases, cause them to persist to this day. This paper utilizes Turner's (1975) concept of 'liminality' to examine elements of city text like toponyms and statues in the eastern Slovak city of Košice to demonstrate why many of these communist-era elements of city text remain as leftover landscapes of the communist period.

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Воплощение мифа о смерти и возрождении (на основе пьесы Ивана Вырыпаева „Июль”)

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Kurant E.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Rossica

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2013

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vol. Zeszyt specjalny 2013

165-172

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This article concerns Russian modern drama, exactly the work of one of its most world famous representatives – Ivan Vyrypaev, 37-year-old actor, theatre and film director and playwright. The drama July by Ivan Vyrypaev is seen in relation to the ritual practices, which are a part of the myth of death and rebirth. Based on contemporary studies of ritual and mythological theory in literature the author identifies in the text of drama a kind of special ‘mifomir’– a structure with its sacred space and time, with the liminal stage of existence of a priest, who is at the same time a victim of a ritual sacrifice in the name of the renewal of life and restoring the cosmos out of chaos. This way of reading contemporary drama reveals her attempt to indicate the relations of the modern man with the eternal values and reflects an attempt to determine the identity and the limits of human being.

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Proksemika. Studium z antropologii kulturowej

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Hendrykowski M.

Przestrzenie Teorii

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2015

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issue 23

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Marek Hendrykowski’s study deals with the semiotics of interpersonal proxemic relationships in today’s world. When analyzing this issue, the author puts forward three research hypotheses. First, interpersonal relationships that are connected with social space are not on the margins of systems of culture, but constitute a very important characteristic of each such system. Secondly, the traditional ways of defining proxemics, which emphasize the existence of interpersonal barriers,present the complex issues related to this field of science of signs and meanings too narrowly and usually in a schematic manner. And thirdly, the profound changes in proxemic relationships that are taking place in the macrosystem of contemporary culture have a major influence on the functioning of culture itself as well as on how individuals, groups and communities participate in this culture. When analyzed in terms of the proxemics of interpersonal relationships, the cultural ecosystem is not an abstract model but an operating system which governs the daily living conditionsof individuals, groups and communities.

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Marek Hendrykowski’s study deals with the semiotics of interpersonal proxemic relationships in today’s world. When analyzing this issue, the author puts forward three research hypotheses. First, interpersonal relationships that are connected with social space are not on the margins of systems of culture, but constitute a very important characteristic of each such system. Secondly, the traditional ways of defining proxemics, which emphasize the existence of interpersonal barriers, present the complex issues related to this field of science of signs and meanings too narrowly and usually in a schematic manner. And thirdly, the profound changes in proxemic relationships that are taking place in the macrosystem of contemporary culture have a major influence on the functioning of culture itself as well as on how individuals, groups and communities participate in this culture. When analyzed in terms of the proxemics of interpersonal relationships, the cultural ecosystem is not an abstract model but an operating system which governs the daily living conditions of individuals, groups and communities.

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Wykonywanie roli zawodowej: prawnik liminalny

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Kaczmarek P.

Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny

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2020

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vol. 82

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issue 3

17-31

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The article has two main goals. The first is to establish the image of a lawyer’s liminality. To carry out this task, I adapt the category of liminality to the description of the legal profession. The second is to present argumentation that draws on the thesis about the differentiation of roles, which will assist consideration of the main proposition. These goals are implemented in three stages. My starting point is an exploration of the concept of liminality. In this regard, I refer to the findings of two anthropologists: Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner. In the next step, I discuss, following Jonas Söderlund and Elisabeth Borg, the dominant ways of examining liminality in the sociology of the organization and management of professional groups. In the last section, I relate these findings to the thesis about the differentiation of roles, distinguishing two of its approaches. As part of this reference, I try to show that the thesis on the differentiation of roles fits into the liminal approach to the professional role. This conclusion is an argument in favour of thinking about a lawyer’s liminality.

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Ramy prezentowanego artykułu wyznaczają dwa cele. Po pierwsze, ugruntowanie obrazu „prawnika liminalnego”. Realizując to zadanie zamierzam dokonać adaptacji kategorii liminalności do opisu zawodu prawnika. Po drugie, przedstawienie linii argumentacyjnej, odwołującej się do tezy o rozdziale ról, która skłonić ma do rozważenia przedłożonej propozycji. Tak postawione cele zostaną zrealizowane w trzech etapach. Punktem wyjścia czynię rozpoznanie pojęcia liminalności. W tym zakresie odwołam się do ustaleń dwóch antropologów Arnolda van Gennepa i Victora Turnera. W kolejnym kroku omawiam za Jonasem Söderlund i Elisabeth Borg dominujące sposoby badania liminalności w literaturze z zakresu socjologii organizacji i zarządzania. W ostatnim punkcie ustalenia te odnoszę do tezy o rozdziale ról, wyróżniając dwa jej ujęcia. W ramach tego odniesienia usiłuję wykazać, że teza o rozdziale ról wpisuje się w liminalne ujęcie roli zawodowej. Wniosek ten stanowi argument na rzecz myślenia o prawniku w kategoriach liminalności.

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Kreowanie doświadczeń liminalnych w szkole z wykorzystaniem metody dramy edukacyjnej

Introductory Comments

The Identity of the Judge in Visual Culture: The Role as Ritual

Duszący dym odpalonych rac. O wyzwaniach w etnografii subkultury kibiców piłkarskich

Die Erfahrung der Liminalität in Alexandra Tobors Roman Sitzen vier Polen im Auto. Teutonische Abenteuer

Street homelessness – on the other side of the mirror

„Teraz, myślę, ale wcale nie” Zdrój Barbary Klickiej jako narracja maladyczna

Liminalność i poznanie w Smudze cienia Josepha Conrada. Między uniwersalnym a kontekstualnym rozumieniem inicjacji

Human Enhancement and the Concept of Liminality1

Byzantine spirit of the Undead and its legacy in the Sick Man of Europe

Social Relations of Urban Children in the Liminal Time of the Pandemic Period

LIMINALITY: BLACK DEATH 700 YEARS LATER. WHAT LESSONS ARE FOR US FROM THE MEDIEVAL PANDEMIC?

Liminal Fragility of Rave – an Autoethnographic Study Reflecting Insider’s Stay in the Field

Liminality and hybridity: consequences of living between two worlds. Louise Erdrich’s tracks’ Pauline Puyat as a case study

Liminal Lives: Navigating In-Betweenness in the Case of Bulgarian and Italian Migrants in Brexiting Britain

Reflections of the Hidden Duchess and the Moon King: The Tabula Scalata and the Engaged Beholder in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Post-communist city text in Košice, Slovakia as a liminal landscape

Воплощение мифа о смерти и возрождении (на основе пьесы Ивана Вырыпаева „Июль”)

Proksemika. Studium z antropologii kulturowej

Wykonywanie roli zawodowej: prawnik liminalny