Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality - Hardcover

[This book treats] a topic with a very broad appeal, namely liminality, treated here as an analytical concept. While liminality has been a widespread concept in anthropology and social theory for decades, largely owing to Victor Turner's seminal work, it has rarely been scrutinized properly, and this volume is to be welcomed; in some ways, this kind of book is long overdue." * Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo " - the book is a timely intervention which secures firmer grounding for liminality as one of the key concepts in social theory - Theoretically strong, and with an empirical range that takes in pre- and post-Revolutionary France, the frontierbuilding of the American West, Egypt's Tahrir Square, and the liminality of the postcommunist Eastern bloc, the book provides a valuable contribution to debates on liminality, transformation and contingency in the social and political world." * Les Roberts, University of Liverpool

Agnes Horvath is a founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal International Political Anthropology and is a visitor in Sociology at Cambridge University. She is the author or co-author of eight books, including most recently, Reclaiming Beauty (co-edited with James B. Cuffe, Ficino Press 2012), Modernism and Charisma (Palgrave 2013), and Statesman: The Politics of Limits and the Liminal (co-edited with John O'Brien, Tivoli 2013). Bjorn Thomassen is Associate Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, and is a founding editor of the journal International Political Anthropology. His recent publications include Liminality and the Modern: Living Through the In-Between (Ashgate 2014), and the edited collection Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City (Indiana University Press, 2014). Harald Wydra is a Fellow of St Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge, where he has taught politics since 2003, and is a founding editor of the journal International Political Anthropology. His books include Communism and the Emergence of Democracy (Cambridge University Press 2007), Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe (co-edited with Alexander Woll, Routledge 2008), and Politics and the Sacred (Cambridge University Press 2015).