Arnold van Gennep
Arnold 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 Totemisme a Madagascar Etude Descriptive et Theorique, Paris: 1904
- Essai d’une théorie des langues spéciales, Paris: 1908
- Le folklore français
- The Rites of Passage, 1909.
- Riturile de trecere, trans., Iaşi: Polirom Publishing House (in Romanian).
- Los rito de paso, trans. Juan Ramón Aranzadi Martínez, Madrid: Alianza Editorial, S. A., 2008 (in Spanish).
- La formation des légendes, Paris: Flammarion, 1910.
- Formarea legendelor, trans., Iaşi: Polirom Publishing House (in Romanian).
- Traité comparatif des nationalités, Paris: Payot, 1922
- Van Gennep (Arnold) 1924. Le folklore. Paris: Stock, 1924 (excerpts) .
- on van Gennep
- Rosemary Zumwalt, "Arnold van Gennep: The Hermit of Bourg-la-Reine", in American Anthropologist, 84, 1982: 299-313.
