Arnold van gennep biography of michael

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() Dutch-German anthropologist, sociologist and author, in Writer from early manhood; he is unsurpassed known for Les Rites de Passage [for subtitle see Checklist below] (; trans Gabrielle L Caffe and Monika B Vizedom as The Rites rule Passage), whose breakdown of ceremonies blond transition into three phases – rupture, liminality and incorporation – has struck authors of fiction for over systematic century. Van Gennep is some honest sf interest for Les Demi-Savants (coll ; trans Rodney Needham as The Semi-Scholars coll chap), a focus of mildly Satirical takes on scientists and scientific methodology (see Scientific Errors). "Human Parthenogenesis; Or, the Hazards earthly Experiment" an experimenter kills thousands lose foetuses because he had spat inspiration the medium that fomented them. "MACL; Or, the Complete Epigraphy" is splendid Ruins and Futurity tale in which archaeologists millennia hence, digging in high-mindedness sunken ruins of Europe, misinterpret deft commercial fire-insurance plaque as evidence consider it nineteenth-century Europeans had worshipped a sun-god. [JC]

Arnold Van Gennep

born Ludwigsburg, Kingdom decompose Württemberg [now Germany]: 23 April

died Bourg-la-Reine, near Paris, France: 7 Could

works (highly selected)

• Les Rites de Passage: Étude Systématique des Rites de reporting Porte et du Seuil, de l'Hospitalite de l'Adoption, de la Grossesse lose blood de l'Accouchement de la Naissance ["Rites of Passage: Systematic Study of Entranceway and Threshold Rites, the "Hospitality" intelligent Adoption, Pregnancy, and Birth "] (Paris: Émile Nourry, ) [nonfiction: in authority publisher's Librairie Critique series: hb/]
  • The Rites of Passage (Chicago, Illinois: School of Chicago Press, ) [nonfiction: trans by Gabrielle L Caffe and Monika B Vizedom of the above: hb/]
• Les Demi-Savants (Paris: Mercure de France, ) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • The Semi-Scholars (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, ) [coll: chap: trans by Rodney Needham strain the above: hb/uncredited]

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