Dissertations / Theses: 'Elusivity of the liminal'

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Latimer, Christine. "The invisible view betwixt and between : exegesis submitted in partial fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Masters of Art & Design, AUT University, November, 2008." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/456.

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This thesis explores the idea of a liminal space, as being dreamlike, suspended in time and physically unlocatable. It questions and exploits the boundary between abstraction and figuration in painting. This investigation has been considered from a subjective viewpoint allowing a distancing of space to illuminate new perceptions and experiences through the language of painting. The project has sought to explore the relationship between the natural world and seeing, to deepen and emphasize the other worldliness of an in-between space. This third space has been evoked by a process of abstracting pictorial content, juxtaposition of elements, colour and composition. The thesis is constituted of practice-based 80%, accompanied by an exegesis 20%.

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Smith, Callie. "Liminal." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619183772384797.

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Zamboni, Camilla. "LIMINAL FIGURES, LIMINAL PLACES: VISUALIZING TRAUMA IN ITALIAN HOLOCAUST CINEMA." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1244042142.

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Jain, Dhawal Suresh. "The Liminal Shift." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83892.

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Malawi is currently identified as one of the poorest countries in the world, based upon economic factors and the large dependence of the country on foreign aid. Poverty is endemic, but how does one measure factors such as happiness and contentment that exists in many communities? How does one account for cultural richness and diversity? Known as the warm heart of Africa, Malawi lives up to its reputation through the warmth and hospitality shown by its people. In spite of an absence of a strong formal architectural history, one cannot help but be impressed by the crude vernacular architecture that is found throughout the country. Together these two conditions, the warm heart and vernacular architecture lead to the question concerning the role of architecture in augmenting Malawis image globally. How can these pre-liminal conditions come together as a force that would start scripting the path of progress for Malawi as a nation? This thesis evaluates the current pre-liminal situation in Malawi through the study of its activities, events and culture. It proposes an intervention in the form of a new library which at its core is developed around the principles of liminality. From the gathering spaces to the local construction techniques and the use of shaded spaces in and around the building, this thesis is an attempt to trigger a liminal shift in Malawi.
Master of Architecture

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Daw, Micah Daniel. "Painting the Liminal." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276667967.

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MacNeil, Mavis O. "The Liminal Voices." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1490635230545844.

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Galloway, Lisa R. "Liminal : a poetry collection." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1313634.

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This project comprises the best poetry written in my graduate study at Ball State University. The title, Liminal, is a term that has reappeared thematically in my work. Merriam Webster defines it as: "the threshold of a physiological or psychological response," but more than that, for me liminality is the doorframe between things; it is poetry. Poetry is a conglomeration of splicing between inner worlds and outer worlds; it tries to capture and recreate physiological or psychological responses, bringing the reader into the threshold that the writer has exited. Poetry is a door, a threshold; it is liminal. Thresholds are infinite and immeasurable; therefore, I have tried to capture or recreate liminal moments of my life into words that are physical, measurable in a sense, and therefore create presence, inviting readers through the threshold of my literary house out of the liminal abyss. These 36 pages of poetry contain liminal subject matter, whether embodying sexuality, relationships, spirituality, or moments bordering life and death, but always the inestimable line between two things.
Department of English

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Sutton, Frances Santagate. "Defining the Liminal Athlete: An Exploration of the Multi-Dimensional Liminal Condition in Professional Sport." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492612100468383.

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Pallí, Monguilod Cristina. "Entangled laboratories: Liminal practices in science." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/5451.

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This thesis presents an ethnography of a research institute in biology and biomedicine (Institut de Biologia i Biomedicina, UAB). As such, it intends to contribute to the tradition of Studies of Science and Technology (STS), in particular, to the so-called "laboratory studies". Likewise, on dealing with technoscience it also attaches to an emergent discipline, social psychology of science and technology. Theoretically, this work tackles the notion of 'belonging', offering alternative ways of imagining 'relationality' or 'being together'. To do so, we find inspiration in the notion of 'partial connection', as elaborated by Strathern, as well as in several contributions from social sciences, mainly anthropology and STS.
Belonging, we argue, does not mean to be included in clear-cut categories, as if communities were enclosed by a symbolic boundary that reproduces reification and exclusion. On the contrary, belonging is an on-going process open to the relation. When we enter a relationship with alterity, the certainties of our world shake, clear-cut categories and identities are suspended, and we question our own position. We are not inside or outside the boundary, but in an ambiguous space between borders -we inhabit the boundary, we find ourselves in a liminal moment of ontological transformation. Thinking 'belonging' from within liminality allows us to understand how heterogeneous entities can nevertheless attach together and belong to each other.
Each chapter of the thesis tests differently the empirical productivity of these ideas. Firstly, the thesis presents some of the transformations that the author suffers, on relating to the community offering hospitality. Moved by something other than herself, the ethnographer emerges out of this encounter as a new position partially connected to the old one: partly the same, partly different. Thus, self-other relations involve a vector of movement, of exile, of expropriation typical of liminal situations.
Next, the structure, functioning, rituals and institutional character of a scientific group in the context of Spanish University are analysed. The work describes the progressive constitution of scientists as competent members of their labs, the development of their careers from students to leaders. We also discuss the ambiguous role that the latter play when looking for funding for the group, developing an heterogeneous activity in which the boundary between 'science' and 'politics' blurs. Likewise, we show how scientists in this country try to overcome some limitiations of Spanish science (for instance, low budget) through collaborations and other original strategies, in order to assure their belonging to European and international science.
In an attempt to extend the notion of relationality to materials, the thesis approaches how scientists connect and articulate the diverse results which different groups achieve locally, so as to construct collectively a common universe. To this aim, and observing some collaborative work between laboratories, we will analyse how a protein is articulated and engineered into being.
The thesis also deals with several tensions that cross the IBB and its knowledge production, such as those between national science and international science, market and gift economy, exchange and collaboration, territorialisation and deterritorialisation, virtuality and actuality, stability and mobility. These tensions are examined not to create antagonisms or reify dichotomies, but to show how the IBB is constituted precisely in the creative, moving field defined by all of them, as a complicated assemblage that brings together parts which do not quite fit. To describe the work of constitution of such an assemblage, we inquire into the notions of exchange, mediation and movement, as well as into their bonding characteristics. At last, the conclusion will try to summarise and blend the different concerns that are elaborated in the whole work.

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Marshall, Diane Connelly Frances S. "The liminal mythology of Anish Kapoor." Diss., UMK access, 2004.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of Art and Art History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2004.
"A thesis in art history." Typescript. Advisor: Frances S. Connelly. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 27, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-197). Online version of the print edition.

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Gamboa, Jorge C. "Liminal Being| Language, Becoming and Belonging." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10825284.

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The present study sought to examine institutional and personal factors that affect the sense of belonging of adult immigrant English-learners in a community college. Specifically, this qualitative study analyzed the lived experiences of twenty-one adult English-learners currently enrolled in a large California community college. Language and Critical Race theory was used a theoretical lens to help understand how language proficiency, instructional policies and practices and social factors affect the extent to which this population feels included and as part of the greater campus community. The study found that proficiency in English was the most salient factor in both enhancing the level of connectedness to campus life and hindrance in accessing linguistic and academic resources. Also, the study revealed that the most effective approach to fostering a greater sense of belonging for adult English-learners was providing high-touch experiences through a robust peer mentorship program. Thus, the findings suggest institutionalizing targeted student support services and professional development that will assist educational practitioners to better support adult English-learners to college completion.

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David, Reppen Felicia. "Securing Liminal Space : An Intimate Approach." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-138802.

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This thesis derives from the comprehension that liminality has the potential for new social relations to form towards new social conditions. With an intimate approach and a deeper understanding of oneself, we can reach a more sensible understanding of others, which can bridge preconceived borders consisting of seemingly different realities that make the city a whole. The aspiration is to shift focus from the obvious preconceived reality towards a self-reflective and intimate occupation of space and being amongst each other. What architectural strategies and spaces can cater for this liminal stage to take form? To explore the concepts of liminality and intimacy this thesis investigates existing independent social operations and physical sites that through their occupation lead to new social relations and physical connections in the city. The methods are based on an inquiry of literature pertaining to this topic, practical curating of intimate space, as well as interviews and engagements with previous mentioned operations and sites. In the proposal phase three sites, or rather sets of conditions, are test cases to examine how liminal spaces can be reassured through an intimate approach within the context of Umeå, Sweden. The three sites are temporal to different extents and operate on different scales and time spans. This temporality gives the sites an uncertain character, which through the research has been found to be a potential for occupying space and use it in unexpected ways. Similar to the temporal character of the sites, the architectural strategies for giving value to these places should avoid a dogmatic and preconceived thinking of how people should use the place. If the potential lies in the undefined, then the proposal should embrace this uncertainty and thereby become facilitators of imagination and reappropriation to take form.

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Elliott, Brenda. "Art as neuronarrative of liminal experience." Thesis, Saybrook University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10009148.

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Abstract ART AS NEURONARRATIVE IN LIMINAL EXPERIENCE Brenda Elliott Saybrook University This study used arts-based and narrative inquiry to explore how artists express subjectively felt liminal experience in the process of art-making. The term liminal comes from the Latin limen, meaning threshold, and can be defined as an in-between, limbo, or suspension between two more relatively stable states in persons, places, or things. Transition through the liminal state contains the potential of change. Although the process of change within the human experience has been widely studied, the mechanisms of change, the means by which change occurs, has received relatively little attention. Fourteen artists were interviewed about their use of art as a means to deal with what they have felt to be liminal experiences. Interviews included direct observation of the artwork, descriptions of the art process, reports of subjective experience of art-making, the artist's writing and journaling of the art process, and the context of the art-making within the life of the participant. The interviewed focused on two main topics: 1. The artist's subjective descriptions of the liminal experience, including his or her major concerns throughout the experience; 2. The artist's description of how he or she dealt with the experience of liminality through art-making and attempted to resolve those concerns. The comparative analysis technique of grounded theory was used to generate conceptual categories and their properties from evidence provided directly from interview data, to generate a basic social psychological process. For the artists interviewed, meaningful and satisfying self-creation was archived in their art process. Anticipatory platforming, the beginning of creation of renewed identity, emerged as a basic social psychological process. Anticipatory platforming finds its place within autopoeisis, the principle of self-generation of an organism as demonstrated in dynamical systems. The concept of anticipatory platforming may prove significant for psychotherapists who are challenged to find ways to support people dealing with change and uncertainty in an increasingly stressful world. It is proposed that an affectively attuned and body-based anticipatory platform facilitates a framework for a transformed self, through which the threshold of change is supported.

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Bratoeva, Chaya, and chayab@tpg com au. "Liminal Sites/ Designing Marginal Space in Broadmeadows." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090525.112334.

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Liminal sites are those on the verge of change, between boundaries and in a temporary state of ambiguity. Throughout my practice as an architect I was aware of the existence of such spaces. I was also aware that they were rarely the product of my intentional design effort. Because of that to me these spaces were precious. They represent moments in space of ambiguous function and questionable beauty but also moments I sought out everyday. This masters research is my way of refocusing my practice to engage with these types of spaces. The sense that this search will take me outside of my understanding of architecture lead me to chose to undertake it as a masters in landscape architecture. My main research question is: How can a designer construct a liminal site? The research concentrates on four central themes - development of a definition of the term

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Yancey, Jason Edward. "Dark Laughter: Liminal Sins in Quevedo's Entremeses." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195236.

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This dissertation investigates two areas rarely treated in Early Modern studies. First, it explores the origins, functions and importance of the entremes as a performance genre historically relegated to what Victor Turner has called the "liminal" spaces of social and scholarly discourse. These marginalized places of ambiguity in between one space and another provide the artist with a less restrictive creative setting in which to explore the otherwise difficult and even unmentionable social themes. Literally placed in between acts of the comedia performance experience, as well as chronologically placed in between the medieval pageant theater and the emerging early modern theater houses, the entremes serves as an entertaining breed of performance monster, building upon a thematic foundation "betwixt and between" acceptable and objectionable forms of theater.Second, the dissertation examines in detail the 12 lesser-known entremeses of Francisco de Quevedo as examples of liminality in the development of early modern theater practices. Specifically, the study analyzes these theater pieces as they subscribe to three categories of cardinal sin: desires of the ego (pride, wrath and sloth); desires of ownership (greed and envy); and desires of the body (lust and gluttony).As a result, this work hopes to demonstrate the aesthetic value of the interlude and the ways in which Quevedo's various manifestations of this liminal genre, based heavily on the construct of sin, both complement and contradict the model of the entremes as established by his predecessors.

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Ortiz, Jonathan. "Almost home halfway houses as liminal space." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2005. http://d-nb.info/988415895/04.

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McHugh, Ian Paul. "Liminal subjectivities in contemporary film and literature." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38659/.

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This thesis discusses the intersection of subjectivity and the liminal in contemporary literary and filmic texts. In discussion of eight texts, the thesis weighs the dual meaning of “liminal subjectivities” – the liminal space between subjectivities, and the condition of subjectivity as it negotiates the liminal. It aims to explore how liminality manifests in manners both universal and specific to the literary or filmic form, in the embodiments of characters, and the rhythms and poetics of the text. It considers the liminal a privileged trope of destabilised subjectivity, a space of suspension and potentiality, and explores how the liminal functions as an interface between haecceity and otherness; whether it binds together or holds apart; if it is a space between oppositional states or a continuum of specific sites of intensity. The eight texts discussed are The Rings of Saturn and Vertigo (W. G. Sebald), Sputnik Sweetheart, Kafka on the Shore, and After Dark (Haruki Murakami), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry), My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant). The work of Sebald and Gondry is considered in translation from the original German and Japanese. The thesis considers both literary and filmic texts to contrast the salient modalities of subjectivity that each form constructs. Each chapter considers how liminality manifests at the surface of the text, how a liminal agency operates to interrupt, destabilise, and displace subjectivity in the spaces between languages, genre, form, voice, states of consciousness, word and image, facticity and fictionality, and cinematic and literary tropes and modes. The discussion explores how this is reflected and expanded upon within the text, in liminal embodiments, intensities, and motifs, such as the hypnagogic, rites of passage, the uncanny, home, the vespertine, night, metamorphosis, carnival, as well as issues of space – the non-place, the extraterritorial, and nomadic space.

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Fye, Carmen Michelle. "Composition and technology: Examining liminal spaces online." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1950.

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This thesis examines how composition studies have been, and continue to be, shaped by the cultural values of exclusion; this field is "continually magnif[ied] and reproduc[ed] in the complex social conditions connected with those values in fundamental ways much like educational systems in general."

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Meier, Lori T. "Academic Identities: Confronting Liminal Spaces with Currere." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5892.

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McLean-Fiander, Kimerley R. D. "Liminal Lives : Paratext in Lanyer, Cary and Speght." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522759.

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Everett, Brittney. "Urban inflection negotiating liminal borders in New Orleans /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1243341999.

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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.
Advisor: John Hancock. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Aug. 3, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: urbanism; urban renewal; border; New Orleans; social justice; architecture; narrative; race; Kevin Lynch; Situationists; Archigram; conceptual project. Includes bibliographical references.

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Pongsajapan, Robert. "Liminal entities identity, governance, and organizations in Twitter /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/457179054/viewonline.

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Thomas, Rhys O. "Liminal identity in contemporary American television science fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/56854/.

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This thesis examines the foregrounding of a particular type of liminal human protagonist in contemporary American television Science Fiction. These protagonists, which I have termed the ‘unliving,’ exist in-between the realms of life and death, simultaneously both alive and dead whilst occupying an indistinct middleground. I examine how the liminal nature of these protagonists has been used as a means of exploring various aspects of personal identity during the early years of the twenty-first century. Developing anthropologist Victor Witter Turner’s work, in which he argued for the universal occurrence of liminality in cultural, political, economic and social contexts, I argue that the use of liminal protagonists in American television Science Fiction constitutes a demonstrable trend. Although they are to be found in ever-increasing numbers in (and outside) the genre, their growing presence and significance have yet to be properly discerned, studied and appreciated. I analyse the use of these unliving protagonists in four key texts: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (The Halcyon Company/Warner Bros. Television, 2008-2009), Battlestar Galactica (Universal/Sci-Fi TV, 2004-2009), Caprica (Universal/Sci-Fi TV, 2010-2011) and Dollhouse (Boston Diva Productions/20th Century Fox, 2009-2010). Textual analyses of serial television are often dismissed as outmoded and irrelevant to the study of television. Part of the aim of this thesis is to repudiate this widespread assumption. Therefore, my methodology involves the use of close narrative analysis to interrogate my chosen texts, situating my findings within broader sociocultural contexts. Utilising this methodological approach reveals how these texts engage with contemporary concerns and anxieties regarding illness, religion, trauma, and gender. Ultimately, this thesis presents an intervention within ongoing discourses regarding the relationship between these subjects and personal identity in 21st century America.

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Murray, Hannah Lauren. "Inexplicable voices : liminal whiteness in Antebellum American fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/42179/.

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This thesis examines the repeated appearance of liminal white voices in antebellum American fiction. It identifies a number of white characters who inhabit the boundary between life and death and produce inexplicable voices: talking corpses, ghosts, ventriloquists, spiritualist mediums and non-human bodies. It argues that Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Robert Montgomery Bird, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville continually associate dead, dying and supernatural white figures with African Americans and Native Americans to amplify these white characters own marginal positions within their communities. While existing criticism classifies the non-white and female body as a site of otherness, this thesis identifies marginality within the white male citizen himself. The six chapters examine how authors articulate liminal whiteness in different vocal contexts: ventriloquism in Brown, storytelling in Irving, blackface minstrelsy in Bird, medical discourse in Poe, enchanting speech in Hawthorne, and wordlessness in Melville. Across these texts, the liminal figure’s voice disturbs essentialist racial ideologies and challenges prescriptions of citizenship in the antebellum period. Inexplicable voices act as powerful articulations of liminal whiteness that question, contest or negate antebellum ideals of the autonomous, rational, industrious, social and respectable white citizen. This thesis demonstrates that antebellum authors employ liminal white voices across the border of life and death to both explore and attempt to contain threats and anxieties of fragile or negated white citizenship. In doing so, this thesis contributes to a growing body of scholarship concerned with the cultural construction of whiteness and citizenship in the antebellum period.

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Everett, Brittney Lynn. "Urban Inflection: Negotiating Liminal Borders in New Orleans." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243341999.

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Osting, Darcy. "Navigating the Threshold: Liminal Boundaries in Embassy Design." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427897646.

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Iyengar, Varsha G. "Liminal Landscapes: Conditioning Climates on the Chicago Riverfront." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1553618489377804.

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Lauterbach, Jeffrey Robert. "Golf in the Collective| Playing in Liminal Space." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10288527.

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This dissertation employs a hermeneutic methodology and a Jungian lens to examine the idea of golf as occupying liminal space. In anthropology, liminality is the transformative space in rites of initiation. In depth psychology psychic transformation occurs in liminal space. This study extends the concept to five loci of liminality: geography, history, the evolution of consciousness, body consciousness, and the creation of knowledge in the hermeneutic circle. The research explores various texts addressing the evolution of individual and collective consciousness, Jungian and somatic psychology, play, numinosity, and writings about golf, applying their perspectives to the author’s personal experiences playing the game as well as to the origin of the game itself. In addition, four of the author’s dreams with a golf motif are analyzed. Because golf follows a directional path and possesses teleological momentum, it is seen as a symbol of the psychological development process that C. G. Jung called individuation, both individually and in the collective. The experience of the numinous “perfect swing” is described and distinguished from flow, peak experience, and peak performance— primarily because of its generation by connection to unconscious archetypal energy. The work considers golf symbolically, and adds to the relatively sparse literature applying depth psychology to sports. The examination of the metaphorical character of play adds to the understanding of that topic in depth psychology as opposed to the objectified, scientific treatment more commonly applied to that subject in the academy.

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Robertson, Greta Jean Staley. "Mathematics liminal perspectives from those living on the margin /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1117549030.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 136 p.; also includes graphics Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-117). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Vetock, Jeffrey Joseph 1965. "Reading between the lies: Liminal consciousness in American literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282689.

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This study posits reading as a trope for meaning-construction and considers the thematized act of reading in American literature as a self-reflective phenomenon that reveals, questions, and complicates the state of America's cultural consciousness in and through literature. Against the institutionalized New Critical practice of explicating texts in a vacuum, the paradigmatic shift in recent decades to contextualized modes of criticism has promoted a performance-oriented view of textuality that immerses texts in a number of problematic relations with the past and with social reality. This "new" perception of reading has been with us all along, I suggest, and my study is an attempt to recuperate the major writers of the American Renaissance for the ongoing work of revisionist scholarship. The canonical writers of the mid-nineteenth century recognize an unstable view of textuality endemic to the American cultural imagination, and indeed centralize its destabilizing effects in their work. The struggle to find and maintain meaning in such a milieu largely informs Melville's ideas about reading, as I describe in Chapter Two, and it also becomes a compelling way to consider American identity and culture in terms of process rather than product. In Chapters Three and Four, I address Whitman and Dickinson as two particularly influential figures who discover, challenge, and even attempt to harness the liminal power from which a process-oriented conception of identity arises. In their ambitious attempts to achieve a freedom of the imagination, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson consciously and unconsciously construct and reflect the American will to freedom. Their liminal conception of reading reveals a liminal sense of being, both of which extend to the present day as a primary trait of American literature and of American cultural consciousness. My concluding chapter considers the implications of a culture based on liminality and arrives at the hard fact that America is doomed by its own dream. The endless American mission to make possible in both fiction and reality the impossible experience of pure freedom inevitably leads to dislocation, frustration, and meaninglessness, as our most powerful and lasting literature consistently illustrates.

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Bugeja, Norbert. "Rethinking the liminal : threshold conciousness in four Mashriqi memoirs." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36764/.

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Standing, Holly Cleo. "'Being' a ventricular assist device recipient : a liminal existence." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3245.

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The purpose of this thesis is to illuminate the experience of living with a ventricular assist device (VAD) from the perspective of the recipients themselves, specific focus is given to the implications of the device on recipients’ day-to-day lives. VADs are mechanical circulatory devices that support or replace the function of a failing heart. In the UK, they are used to bridge patients to heart transplantation. This study adopts an interpretive phenomenological approach using the ‘lived experiences’ of VAD recipients as the basis of the investigation. The study comprised of twenty patients living with VADs, seventeen men and three women, aged 21 to 68, all of whom had been living on VAD support for varying amounts of time. A central tenet of this thesis is that the experience of ‘Being’ a VAD recipient is underpinned by a high degree of liminality (Turner, 1969). Life, for these individuals appears to be placed on hold whilst living with the device. Liminality creeps into the experience of ‘Being’ a VAD recipient at different time points, influencing how the individual views themselves and their future, the practices employed by VAD recipients to manage this uncertainty are considered. The impact of the materiality of the VAD is also discussed, with reference to literature from science and technology studies, exploring how recipients make sense of having a piece of technology implanted into the body and the resultant impacts on identity and surroundings following this merging of the ‘self’ and ‘not-self’. The impact of the VAD on recipients’ social roles and responsibilities are explored, along with the role of VAD communities in learning to live with the device. Ultimately, this thesis suggests that the essence of ‘Being’ a VAD recipient is a pervading sense of liminality as these individuals live under the lingering shadow of heart failure.

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Starr, James Richard. "A liminal examination of always already meaning within language." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3211.

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This thesis juxtaposes Plato's allegory of the cave with Jacques Derrida's concept of the always already aspect of meaning, a concept derived from Ferdinand de Saussure's work. This theoretical investigation examines the implications of universal Signified forms of word meanings for postmodern composition theory.

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Crandell, Allison S. "Cyborg Butterflies, Liminal Medicine: Thyroid Hormone Treatment, 1890-1970." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42683.

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In this thesis, I develop a history of thyroid hormone treatment (THT) that centers on the bodies of animals and women between 1890 and 1970. This history contextualizes the current debate between two forms of THT, desiccated and synthetic. Drawing on the discourses present in biomedical journals, I trace how medical practitioners used the animals and women to demonstrate and make sense of THTâ s effectiveness over time. As such, I study what Catherine Waldby terms the â biomedical imaginary,â or the speculative fabric of scientific thought, to demonstrate how an â ordinaryâ medical technology crosses and reinforces the conceptions of gender and animality.

THT emerged in the 1890s as an organotherapy, or a medicine made from animal organs. Like other organotherapies, general physicians used THT for a wide variety of ailments that had not been scientifically proven through the practices of vivisection or animal experimentation. From its emergence, THT served as a site of tension between scientific researchers and general practitioners. This tension only increased when a synthetic form of THT was invented in the 1920s, when scientific researchers embraced synthetic THT and general practitioners continued using desiccated THT. At the center of the controversy were the productive and subversive relationships of animals and women to biomedical meaning-making. Over the twentieth century, methods of defining THTâ s effectiveness and purity were defined in opposition to these bodies. These chemical measures combined the specialist and physicianâ s measurement of THTâ s clinical effectiveness, which led to a preference for synthetic THT.
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Key, Michelle. "Betwixt and between: exploring the passage of liminal space." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002202.

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The focus of this thesis is on the liminal space, limen being Latin for threshold. The liminal space is used as a means of figuring and reading artworks that appear to be in a process of becoming and disappearing. A dialectical and reciprocal reading is made of Bourgeois’ “neo-Baroque” artwork Spider (1997) and Michelle Key’s Betwixt-in-Between (2004). Liminality here is discussed within the theoretical framework of several key conceptual concerns, including abjection (as examined principally by Julia Kristeva), Baroque thought (as discussed by Mieke Bal, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek) and allegory (as figured primarily by Walter Benjamin and commentators on Benjamin’s writings). What links these concerns are their focus on indeterminacy, instability, and process as opposed to certitude and finitude. The exploration of the inscription of time in space; that is the temporal process, which gives rise to, which produces, the spatial dimension, is attempted in order to make meaning, however provisionally, of what may be argued to destabilise meaning and to consider possibilities for both art-making and interpretation that would engage critically with this instability.

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Purcell, Marisa. "Ancestral Spaces: Time, Memory and the Liminal Experience of Painting." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2763.

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Abstract of Dissertation Where a person is situated in space and time determines the way an artwork is perceived. The result of this experience implies a relationship between the viewer and the artwork, thereby creating a liminal space. The terms liminal space and nonduality in this paper refer to the threshold, or in-between space that both separates and unites two opposing forces, creating a unique place that transcends memory and time. An artwork can serve as a mediatory object between artist and viewer because with each encounter, a unique meeting occurs. Thus, the meeting of audience and art object is transitory, ephemeral and temporal by nature and will be discussed in relation to the artwork as a vehicle to foster a subjective perception. Using my ancestral memories as a starting point, I refer to the art object as a means to explore time as a cross section of experience. Like dreams, where time is non-linear and memories exist side by side, I refer to the nondual space that exists between artist, artwork and audience as an opportunity to access an intuitive reaction to perception. The yearning to represent subjective space stems from my desire to understand perception and the brain. By presenting an overview of approaches from art history and contemporary art, this paper will discuss the various philosophical approaches that have been employed to represent space and time. I emphasise the ability of visual art to record the multifarious nature of experience, and the ability of the picture plane as a means to employ illusory and abstract space simultaneously. I have approached the research of time, memory and space through the lens of my own ancestry, which is essentially a combination of eastern and western in origin. Through this model I explore the tendencies throughout art history to depict space and time and the influences that culture and science have had upon the visual arts. My own paintings, and the work of Louise Bourgeois, Amy Cutler and Mamma Andersson are discussed with the intention of describing how the subjectivity of space can be expressed through a method that embraces the theories of nonduality and liminal space. Between the junction of east/west and abstract/illusory space, lies a point of union that I will refer to as ‘transcendent space’. By existing in the nondual, access is granted into a field that transcends the ‘either/or’ and allows access into a temporal space that permeates all experience. Studio work The studio component of the MVA will comprise of a series of paintings and an installation entitled, Only the memories are new. The paintings are of small scale and play with depictions of flatness and illusion. I have referenced Arabic miniatures as a means to employ a vertical perspective, whilst the inclusion of windows and doorways imply an opening to the nondual and the liminal. For the installation, components of the paintings come to life and occupy a space that invites the viewers’ participation. The installation presents an environment that asks the viewer to navigate the space that they occupy by way of memory and time.

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Hurley, Alicia H. "Bitten and spanked the male revue as a liminal setting /." Greensboro, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. http://libres.uncg.edu/edocs/etd/1475Hurley/umi-uncg-1475.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Feb. 29, 2008). Directed by Steve Kroll-Smith; submitted to the Dept. of Sociology. Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-65).

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Zuiker, Steven J. "Transforming practice designing for Liminal transitions along trajectories of participation /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3274920.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Counseling and the Educational Psychology, 2007.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2816. Advisers: Daniel T. Hickey; Sasha A. Barab. Title from dissertation home page (viewed Apr. 14, 2008).

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Biggane, Julia. "In a liminal space : the novellas of Emilia Pardo Bazán /." Durham : University of Durham, 2000. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/318312646.pdf.

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Mobley, Gregory. "Samson and the liminal hero in the ancient Near East /." New York [u.a.] : Clark, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006019647.html.

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Mass., Harvard Univ., Diss. u.d.T.: Mobley, Gregory: Samson, the liminal hero--Cambridge, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [116]-124) and indexes. Revision of the author's thesis--Harvard University, 1994, originally presented under the title: Samson, the liminal hero.

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Moran, Dominic Paul. "Questions of the liminal in the fiction of Julio Cortázar." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.627115.

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Dunnill, John David Stewart. "Covenant and liminal action in the letter to the Hebrews." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495090.

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This study of Hebrews uses methods derived from anthropological structuralism to interpret the sacrificial symbolism and other difficult features of the letter. Beginning from a structural account of religion as a system of signs for ordering experience, and the light this casts on aspects of O. T. ritual, it offers explanations of the use Hebrews makes of O. T. symbols, and also of its presentation of the saving action of Christ and the life of Christians in the new covenant'. The book's argument and pastoral purpose are treated as secondary to its quasiliturgical character as a covenant- renewal rite, a timeless event of encounter with God, with a logic governed by symbolic associations and the 'necessities' of sacrifice. Though Hebrews projects a religious system based on unrestricted communion with God, and is deeply opposed to the separative, expiatory sacrifice and priesthood typified by P. it views expiatory thinking as a human necessity rooted in the problem of death. Through Jesus' death, presented as a . 'mythological' pattern deeply interwoven with O. T. covenantal theology, the fundamental ambiguity in human experience of God is resolved. Structuralism is shown to be a holistic approach well fitted to contribute to the solution of some outstanding exegetical and conceptual problems of this complex and highly integrated work.

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Chew, Michelle Wu-Hwee. "Living the liminal : facilitating pilgrimage on the Isle of Iona." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4c1d0266-ce69-4bd2-b0ca-661d6be00f1b.

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This thesis spotlights a social group pilgrimage site staff heretofore neglected in anthropological research. The main subjects are the Resident Group ('ressies') working at the lona Community's guest centres. Based on an accumulative 16-month fieldwork, the ethnographic evidence challenges the assumptions that pilgrims' 'sacred' encounters are unmediated, that site staff passively acquiesce with the dominant ideology, and that the production of pilgrimage experience is unproblematic. Building on existing paradigms of pilgrimage as 'contested', 'movement'-oriented, and a form of'practice', the Turners' classic view of pilgrimage as rite de passage is deployed to show that 'place' and 'landscape' are key themes in people's understanding of and engagement with this ancient pilgrimage isle today. Part I lays the theoretical and methodological groundwork and introduces the research locale, locating it within recent Celtic revivalisms. It also addresses how the lona Community (ressies' employers) situate their religio-political vision within the wider sociological and theological contexts of contemporary British Christianity. Part II recounts the historical and contemporary formulations of lona pilgrimage and tourism. A Heideggerian perspective of 'dwelling' illuminates how devotees appropriate lona's 'sacred' geography as a resource for personal revelation and self- transformation. Ethnographic accounts of visitors' 'Iona experience' are provided as a comparative foil to the site staff who enable this distinctive pilgrimage encounter. Part III explores ressies' motivations, discourses, and experiences at lona as a locus of 'holistic' work (and worship). It elucidates their complex relationship with the lona Community and how ressies contest their idealised corporate identity. Van Gennep's concept of 'liminality' and Ardener's 'paradox of remote places' emerge as central themes in analysing ressies' 'betwixt and between' 'selves'. An investigation of the social and ideological structures of the Resident Group setup as a 'total institution' further reveals the impact of the 'leaving lona' rhetoric and reality upon ressies' post-Iona lives.

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Purcell, Marisa. "Ancestral spaces time, memory and the liminal experience of painting /." Connect to full text, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2763.

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Thesis (M.V.A.)--University of Sydney, 2008.
Title from title screen (viewed 11 September, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts to the Sydney College of the Arts. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Includes bibliographical references.

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Morrison, Angeline Dawn. "Liminal blankness : mixing race & space in monochrome's psychic surface." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/706.

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Blank space in western Art History and visual culture is something that has tended to be either explained away, or ignored. Pictures that do not depict challenge the visual basis of the ego and its others, confronting what I call the 'Phallic reader' (who sees according to the logic and rules of the Phallogocentric system he inhabits) and potentially disturbing his sense of the visible. The Phallic reader, the visible and the seeing ego's sense of how to see, meet in what I call the 'psychic surface'. Deploying this notion of a 'psychic surface' allows for readings which move on from the potentially confining logic of the Phallus. Paradoxically, the psychic structure of monochrome's liminal blankness is homologous to the indeterminate Mixed Race subject, whose body transgresses not only the foundational historical binarism of 'Black/White', but also Lacanian psychoanalysis. This thesis aims to concentrate on exploring blank spaces, with particular reference to the monochrome within western Art History. Building on the considerable work since at least the 1960s that critiques the binary logocentrism of Eurocentric, Hegelian-originated Art History, this thesis aims to explore the specific ways monochrome evades, undermines and tricks commonly accepted 'groundrules' of Art History. The Phallic reader is severely restricted in understanding that which falls outside of the signifying logic of a particular system of Art History that follows a binary, teleological and Phallogocentric course. Both monochrome and the Mixed Race subject fall outside of this logic, as both contain the structure of the trick. In each case, the trick is activated in the tension between the prychica nd the opticals urfaces. I suggestt hat monochrome's psychic space is pre-Phallic, a space of eternal deferral of meaning, a space that playfully makes a nonsense of binary structures. Psychoanalysis is largely used here as an analytic tool, but also appears as an object of critique. Art History provides an anchor for the optical surfaces under discussion. Theories of 'radical superficiality' both contradict and complement these ways of theorising the psychic surface. The trick/ster is a significant/signifiant means of deploying interdisciplinary methodologies to negotiate this difficult terrain between Black, White and monochrome. An interdisciplinary approach also enacts the psychic structure of indeterminacy of my objects of study. I hope that by proposing a potential transgressive power for those indeterminate things that continue to confound the binary systems that aim to contextualise and confine them, I will contribute to the areas of Visual Culture and 'Race' Theory.

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Costas, Jana. "Identity, self-alienation and liminal work configurations in contemporary capitalism." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611609.

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Pastel, Em. "Liminal legacies in Bohemia: Czech underground culture c. 1968-1989." Thesis, Boston University, 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27740.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Miller, Catherine Annalisa. "Earth. Water. Sky. The Liminal Landscape of the Maya Sweatbath." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52636.

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This dissertation investigates the ancient healing tradition of the Maya sweatbath, its landscape, and rituals, which after three millennia is still practiced today among the contemporary Maya. Frequently overlooked because of its size, the ancient Maya sweatbath's location in ancient ceremonial cores, royal courts, and near important ritual structures and sacred water features accentuates its importance and need to understand its role, siting, and connection with the landscape. A three step approach of rooting, projecting, and transcending is applied to the investigation's structure for examining the sweatbaths conception as the womb of Mother Earth, the structure as a replica of the cosmos, the liminal landscape tethering together water, topography, and the celestial domain, and rituals of purification, healing, and transformation. In addition, the ancient Maya site of Yaxchiln and its three sweatbaths serves as the epicenter, the investigation's initial point of beginning, from where projections are made outward to twenty-eight additional sweatbaths augmenting and defining the scope of sweatbath features and site conditions. A combination of archeological drawings, architectural and landscape plans and sections, ethnographic and ethnohistoric texts, and epigraphic interpretations are examined, in combination and juxtaposition, as a means for integrating the symbolic and physical layers, which in union compose a complimentary narrative highlighting liminality as a principal quality encompassing the sweatbath. Liminality, associated with transition and transformation and fundamental to the Maya notion of gestation and creation of the cosmos, is revealed and demonstrated through the cyclical and everchanging nature of the sweatbath landscape of earth, water and sky, and reflected in man's inherent life processes and fundamental to the sweatbath rituals' symbolism of rebirth and renewal.
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Gomez, Menjivar Jennifer Carolina. "Liminal Citizenry: Black Experience in the Central American Intellectual Imagination." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1305915276.

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DeBiase, Alexandra D. "Liminal Identity in Willa Cather's The Professor's House." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1377115948.

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