Arnold van Gennep
Arnold Kurr Van Gennep (23 April 1873 – 7 May 1957) was a noted French ethnographer and folklorist. His best known work is Les rites de passage [The Rites of Passage] (1909) in which he divides rites of passage rituals into three phases: preliminal, liminal, and postliminal. The liminal stage was further studied by anthropologist Victor Turner.
Works
(in French unless noted)
Monographs
- Tabou et totémisme à Madagascar; étude descriptive et théorique, Paris, 1904.
- 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. (in English)
- Riturile de trecere, trans. Lucia Berdan and Nora Vasilescu, Iaşi: Polirom, 1996. (in Romanian) [1]
- Los rito de paso, trans. Juan Ramón Aranzadi Martínez, Madrid: Alianza, 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, 1997. (in Romanian)
- Les demi-savants, Paris: Mercure de France, 1911.
- Études d'ethnographie algérienne, Paris: Ernest Leroux, 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: Agatha, 2003. (in Romanian)
- Traité comparatif des nationalités, Paris: Payot, 1922.
- Le folklore, Paris: Stock, 1924. Excerpts.
Bibliography
- Ketty van Gennep, Bibliographie des oeuvres d’Arnold van Gennep, Editions A. et J. Picard, 1964 [2]
Literature
- Victor Turner, "Liminality and Communitas", in The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1969. (in English)
- Nicole Belmont, Arnold van Gennep, créateur de l'ethnographie française, Paris: Payot, 1974.
- Rosemary Zumwalt, "Arnold van Gennep: The Hermit of Bourg-la-Reine", American Anthropologist 84 (1982), pp 299-313. (in English)
