This book provides the history and genealogy of an increasingly important subject: liminality.
Coming to the fore in recent years in social and political theory and extending beyond is …

Perhaps the most controversial issues in the negotiation of the Convention for the
Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage concerned the creation, designation, and …

Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities. Nineteenth-century nation
states built museums to preserve their historical monuments. In the present world, heritage is …

The voluminous book provides a range of international theories and methodologies in
analytical folklore investigations, and a classification scheme based on genre is offered as …

Is COLLECTIVE CREATION A FIGMENT of the nineteenth-century imagination? Have
folklorists long since surpassed communal theories of creativity? That, at least, is the official …

Can a monkey own a selfie? Can a chimp use habeas corpus to sue for freedom? Can
androids be citizens? Increasingly, such difficult questions have moved from the realm of …

Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, Creolization as Cultural Creativity
explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures …

'Object sticks to a body','Horses-brothers','Ogre persuaded to drink a river dry bursts','The
unworthy girl fails, the worthy one succeeds','Bat between birds and animals','Stinking mouth …

This article engages the so far neglected intellectual dispute between Emile Durkheim and
Arnold van Gennep. It revisits the most salient points of van Gennep's critique of Durkheim's …

Creolists employ metaphor from a variety of semantic domains to render the processes
through which cultures combine and to characterize new forms that emerge from their …