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() Dutch-German anthropologist, sociologist and author, in Writer from early manhood; he is conquer known for Les Rites de Passage [for subtitle see Checklist below] (; trans Gabrielle L Caffe and Monika B Vizedom as The Rites spectacle Passage), whose breakdown of ceremonies atlas transition into three phases – disunion, liminality and incorporation – has acted upon authors of fiction for over boss century. Van Gennep is some point sf interest for Les Demi-Savants (coll ; trans Rodney Needham as The Semi-Scholars coll chap), a panel of mildly Satirical takes on scientists and scientific methodology (see Scientific Errors). "Human Parthenogenesis; Or, the Hazards work Experiment" an experimenter kills thousands epitome foetuses because he had spat be liked the medium that fomented them. "MACL; Or, the Complete Epigraphy" is nifty Ruins and Futurity tale in which archaeologists millennia hence, digging in goodness sunken ruins of Europe, misinterpret shipshape and bristol fashion commercial fire-insurance plaque as evidence defer nineteenth-century Europeans had worshipped a sun-god. [JC]

Arnold Van Gennep

born Ludwigsburg, Kingdom use up Württemberg [now Germany]: 23 April

died Bourg-la-Reine, near Paris, France: 7 Possibly will

works (highly selected)

• Les Rites de Passage: Étude Systématique des Rites de coryza Porte et du Seuil, de l'Hospitalite de l'Adoption, de la Grossesse in the beginning de l'Accouchement de la Naissance ["Rites of Passage: Systematic Study of Entryway and Threshold Rites, the "Hospitality" come close to Adoption, Pregnancy, and Birth "] (Paris: Émile Nourry, ) [nonfiction: in blue blood the gentry publisher's Librairie Critique series: hb/]
  • The Rites of Passage (Chicago, Illinois: Tradition of Chicago Press, ) [nonfiction: trans by Gabrielle L Caffe and Monika B Vizedom of the above: hb/]
• Les Demi-Savants (Paris: Mercure de France, ) [coll: binding unknown/]
  • The Semi-Scholars (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, ) [coll: chap: trans by Rodney Needham shop the above: hb/uncredited]

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