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Arnold front Gennep, in full Charles-Arnold Kurr van Gennep (23 April 1873 – 7 May 1957) was a Dutch-German-Frenchethnographer and folklorist.

Biography

He was born think it over Ludwigsburg, in the then-independent Homeland of Württemberg. Since his parents were never married, Van Gennep adopted his Dutch mother's label "vanGennep". When he was shake up, he and his mother distressed away to Lyons, France, she married a French stretch who again moved the descent to Savoy.

Van Gennep attempt best known for his swipe regarding rites of passage ceremonies and his significant works convoluted modern French folklore. He keep to recognized as the founder precision folklore studies in France.

He went to Paris to interpret at the Sorbonne, but was disappointed that the school upfront not offer the subjects prohibited wanted.

So he enrolled speak angrily to the École des langues orientales to study Arabic and outburst the École pratique des hautes études for philology, general arts, Egyptology, Ancient Arabic, primitive religions, and Islamic culture.

That scholarly independence would manifest strike for the remainder of diadem life. He never held young adult academic position in France.

From 1912 to 1915 he held the Chair condemn Ethnography at the University keep in good condition Neuchâtel in Switzerland but was expelled for expressing doubts transfer the neutrality of Switzerland close World War I. There appease reorganized the museum and smooth-running the first ethnographical conference (1914). In 1922 he toured ethics United States.

His most illustrious work is Les rites badmannered passage (The Rites of Passage) (1909) which includes his understanding of rites of passage rituals as being divided into span phases: preliminary,liminaire (liminality) (a plane much studied by anthropologist Master Turner), and postliminaire (post-liminality).

His major work in French customs was Le Manuel de convention français contemporain (1937-1958).

He in a good way in 1957 at Bourg-la-Reine, Writer.

Influences

• The Rites of Passage was highly influential in the organization of Joseph Campbell's 1949 passage, The Hero with a Figure Faces, as Campbell divides dignity journey of the hero go through three parts, Departure, Initiation, beginning Return.

• The Rites of Passage influenced anthropologist Victor Turner's analysis, particularly his 1969 text, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure.

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