Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Content v
3. Figures vii
4. Introduction: Liminality and the Search for Boundaries 1
5. Part I Framing Liminality
6. Chapter 1 Liminality and Experience: Structuring Transitory Situations and Transformative Events 11
7. Chapter 2 Thinking with Liminality: To the Boundaries of an Anthropological Concept 39
8. Part II Liminality and the Social
9. Chapter 3 Inbetweenness and Ambivalence 61
10. Chapter 4 The Genealogy of Political Alchemy: The Technological Invention of Identity Change 72
11. Chapter 5 Critical Processes and Political Fluidity: A Theoretical Appraisal 93
12. Chapter 6 Liminality and the Frontier Myth in the Building of the American Empire 112
13. Chapter 7 On the Margins of the Public and the Private: Louis XIV at Versailles 130
14. Part III Liminality and the Political
15. Chapter 8 Liminality, the Execution of Louis XVI, and the Rise of Terror during the French Revolution 141
16. Chapter 9 In Search of Antistructure: The Meaning of Tahrir Square in Egypt’s Ongoing Social Drama 164
17. Chapter 10 Liminality and Democracy 183
18. Chapter 11 Liminality and Postcommunism: The Twenty-First Century as the Subject of History 205
19. Chapter 12 The Challenge of Liminality for International Relations Theory 226
20. Contributors 245
21. Index 249