Broken Bodies, Disruptured Landscapes
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reversed. In his seminal work The Ritual Process (1969) Turner refers to liminality as
‘anti-structure’—a state outside the ordinary social structure which an individual
occupies. Turner identified social processes as having the capacity for being liminal in
that they transport individuals beyond the ken of their everyday experiences. In this way,
liminality privileges peripheral experiences w'hich heighten a specific kind of awareness
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