Reproduction - sotsioloogia
failure'.
Childlessness a more apt signifier
Experience of Childlessness or Infertility
is shaped by ideology and social
structure of a society, e.g. Liminality,
Ndembu Ritual
"Liminality"
· Liminal (Latin limin-, limen meaning
threshold). Relating to a transitional or initial stage; marginal, insignificant, occupying a
position on, or on both sides of a boundary or threshold. Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957):
· Separation (from previous status).
· Marginal or liminal period (transition).
· Reincorporation of those passing into new statuses Victor W Turner (1920-1983):
· Liminality as "Betwixt and Between Time".
· Liminality is fraught with danger and opportunity.
Why?
· Anti-Structure: "liberation of human capacities of cognition, affect, volition, creativity, etc., from normative constraints ... a kind of
institutional capsule or pocket which contains the germ of future social developments, of societal change"
Ndembu of Zambia: Infertility
Ritual & Social Structure
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