Abstract
French ethnographer, Arnold van Gennep (2011), first introduced the concept of liminality to the field of anthropology in the early twentieth century as the transitional or middle stage of a three-stage model in ritual rights of passage. Anthropologist Victor Turner (1995) later focused upon and expanded the concept of liminality as an important place or period situated between two phases in which an individual has separated from the society to which they previously belonged and has yet to be reintegrated into that society. It is in this space of ambiguity and uncertainty, of restlessness and anticipation that we find youth.
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Skott-Myhre, K.S.G. (2016). Youth: A Radical Space of Pilgrimage. In: Skott-Myhre, H., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Skott-Myhre, K.S.G. (eds) Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology. Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137480040_10
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