Arnold van Gennep

Arnold Kurr Van Gennep (23 April 1873 – 7 May 1957) was a noted French ethnographer and folklorist. His most famous work is Les rites de passage [The Rites of Passage] (1909) which includes his vision of rites of passage rituals as being divided into three phases: preliminary, liminaire (liminality) (a stage much studied by anthropologist Victor Turner), and postliminaire (post-liminality).

Literature

Books by van Gennep

• Tabou et totémisme à Madagascar; étude descriptive et théorique, Paris: 1904 [1]
• Mythes et légendes d'Australie: études d'ethnographie et de sociologie, Paris: E. Guilmoto, 1906
• Essai d’une théorie des langues spéciales, Paris, 1908
• Religions, moeurs et légendes; essais d'ethnographie et de linguistique, Paris, 1908.
• Les rites de passage , Paris: Librairie critique Émile Nourry, 1909.
  • The Rites of Passage, trans. M.B. Vizedom and G.L.Caffee, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960.
  • Riturile de trecere, trans. Lucia Berdan and Nora Vasilescu, Iaşi: Polirom Publishing House, 1996 (in Romanian) [2].
  • Los rito de paso, trans. Juan Ramón Aranzadi Martínez, Madrid: Alianza Editorial, S. A., 2008 (in Spanish).
• De quelques rites de passage en Savoie, Paris: Leroux, 1910
• La formation des légendes, Paris: Flammarion, 1910.
  • Formarea legendelor, trans. Lucia Berdan and Crina Ioana Berdan, Iaşi: Polirom Publishing House, 1997 (in Romanian).
• Les demi-savants, Paris: Mercure de France, 1911
• Études d'ethnographie algérienne, Paris : Ernest Leroux Editeur, 1911
• En Algérie, Paris: Mercure de France, 1914
• Le genie de l'organisation, Paris: Librairie & Cie, 1915
  • Geniul organizării. Formula franceză şi engleză vs. formula germană, trans. Sînziana Barangă, Piteşti: Editura Agatha, 2003 (in Romanian)
• Traité comparatif des nationalités, Paris: Payot, 1922
• Le folklore, Paris: Stock, 1924 (excerpts).

on van Gennep

• Victor Turner, "Liminality and Communitas", in The Ritual Process: Stracture and Anti-Structure, Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1969:94-413, 125—30.
• Nicole Belmont, Arnold van Gennep, créateur de l'ethnographie française, Paris: Payot, 1974.
• Rosemary Zumwalt, "Arnold van Gennep: The Hermit of Bourg-la-Reine", in American Anthropologist, 84, 1982: 299-313.

bibliography

• Ketty van Gennep, Bibliographie des oeuvres d’Arnold van Gennep, Editions A. et J. Picard, 1964 [3]

Links

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