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Lifedeath: The Liminality of Role Enactment in the Theatrum Mundi

Religions
For millennia, since Homer to postmodern theatre, the world has been imagined as a stage and life as a play. The truth of this metaphor, however, rests on mere assertions. This essay assesses the validity of this metaphor by examining drama as enactment.
Simeon Theojaya
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An Anthropological Analysis of the Arbaeen Pilgrimage Using the Theory of Rites of Passage [PDF]

اسلام و مطالعات اجتماعی
Rites are a set of actions performed within a society for specific forms and purposes, claiming the influence of supernatural forces on people. Rites are divided into collective (at the societal level) and individual (at the personal level) categories ...
zahra maher
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Seascapes, personhood and humanity: Conceptualising the contribution of international human rights law to sustainable governance of the marine environment

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite longstanding research on human rights and the environment, scholarship has only recently moved towards an explicit connection to the marine environment. At the same time, research on human rights and oceans focuses on people at sea, not environmental protection.
Laura Major, Elaine Webster
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Transitions theory and liminality in information behaviour research

J. Documentation, 2019
Purpose Transitions – as a focus of study – have been missing from information behaviour research. The purpose of this paper is to explore the topic of transitions – their characteristics and influences, the related concept of liminality and Transitions
Rebekah Willson
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Identity Play: Middle School Youths' Provisional Self‐Making in Horizon‐Expanding STEM Spaces

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study introduces identity play as an analytic construct for science education to explore improvisational dimensions of middle school students' STEM identity development in multiple out‐of‐school learning experiences focused on environmental problem‐solving.
Heidi B. Carlone, Alison K. Mercier
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Collective Liminality: The Spillover Effects of Indeterminate Detention on Immigrant Families

Law & society review, 2020
This article introduces the concept of collective liminality, a shared condition of heightened threat and uncertainty experienced by immigrant detainees and their families, as they wait, caught between two possible outcomes: their loved one’s (temporary ...
Mirian G. Martinez-Aranda
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Micro‐transitions and work identity: The case of academic entrepreneurs

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how academic entrepreneurs—scientists who found research‐based startups while remaining in academia—construct and sustain their professional identities amid frequent transitions between academic and entrepreneurial roles.
Marouane Bousfiha, Henrik Berglund
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The Representation of Communitas in the Forest of Arden: Shakespeare’s As You Like It

Ideas: Journal of English Literary Studies, 2022
In As You Like It, Shakespeare creates the Forest of Arden as a transitional liminal site where the characters undergo a process of becoming and transformation.
Kübra Vural Özbey
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What Matters to Us?: Contemplating a Holistic Indigenous Identity Framework Through Four Framing Questions

New Directions for Student Services, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces a conceptual framework for Indigenous college student identity development, addressing the limitations of mainstream student development theories rooted in Western, Eurocentric worldviews. Drawing on Tribal Critical Race Theory and relationality, we propose four guiding questions—Where are we? Who are we?
Symphony Oxendine, Stephanie J. Waterman
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Abstracts [PDF]

, 2010
s for Ethnic Studies Review, Vol. 33, No.

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