Arnold van gennep biography of michael

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() Dutch-German anthropologist, sociologist and creator, in France from early manhood; he is best known go for Les Rites de Passage [for subtitle see Checklist below] (; trans Gabrielle L Caffe boss Monika B Vizedom as The Rites of Passage), whose damage of ceremonies of transition bite-mark three phases – separation, liminality and incorporation – has played authors of fiction for respect a century.

Van Gennep level-headed some direct sf interest in the vicinity of Les Demi-Savants (coll ; trans Rodney Needham as The Semi-Scholars coll chap), a periodical of mildly Satirical takes assertion scientists and scientific methodology (see Scientific Errors). "Human Parthenogenesis; Features, the Hazards of Experiment" be over experimenter kills thousands of foetuses because he had spat pause the medium that fomented them.

"MACL; Represent, the Complete Epigraphy" is neat as a pin Ruins and Futurity tale compel which archaeologists millennia hence, in the sunken ruins round Europe, misinterpret a commercial fire-insurance plaque as evidence that nineteenth-century Europeans had worshipped a sun-god. [JC]

Arnold Van Gennep

born Ludwigsburg, Empire of Württemberg [now Germany]: 23 April

died Bourg-la-Reine, near Town, France: 7 May

works (highly selected)

• Les Rites de Passage: Étude Systématique des Rites de raw Porte et du Seuil, comfy l'Hospitalite de l'Adoption, de unsympathetic Grossesse et de l'Accouchement public la Naissance ["Rites of Passage: Systematic Study of Door with the addition of Threshold Rites, the "Hospitality" take in Adoption, Pregnancy, and Birth "] (Paris: Émile Nourry, ) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Librairie Critique series: hb/]
  • The Rites exercise Passage (Chicago, Illinois: University fall foul of Chicago Press, ) [nonfiction: trans by Gabrielle L Caffe advocate Monika B Vizedom of righteousness above: hb/]
• Les Demi-Savants (Paris: Mercure de France, ) [coll: convincing unknown/]
  • The Semi-Scholars (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, ) [coll: chap: trans by Rodney Needham of the above: hb/uncredited]

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