The term "Liminality" is a new word that became synonymous with Victor Turner's work in "The Ritual Process" published in 1967, but in turn seems from "The Rights of Passage" by Arnold Van Gannep. Van Gennep's work focuses on the "rites of passage", which today is seen as a ritual for people in different forms of life. ... Van Gennep's first phase involves the person or persons to be in a state of incompletion, which is lost and must be ready to accept the rituals and maybe forced to comply. ...

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