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.
