Liminal being

last sentence of “The Bear” shows how one becomes what they consume; therefore, humans are the stories they read when they submerge themselves into them. [SP 1a] In the last sentence, the narrator—a hunter—reflects on the pain he has caused another being, understands how bear and human are one, and empathizes with the bear [SP 7a]. In the last sentence, each appositive refers to the blood of the bear. The narrator is telling about how living off the pain and suffering of others when he refers…

Liminal Shores, Agential Oceans After being reminded of Hayao Miyazaki’s film Ponyo in Mel Y. Chen’s Animacies, I became interested in the liminal or transitional properties of the seashore in Ponyo and A Tale for the Time Being. At the beginning of Ponyo, a young boy named Sōsuke finds the titular character as a fish trapped in a glass jar near the seashore. He breaks her free, slightly cutting himself, and Ponyo licks his cut and begins her transmogrification from fish into chicken, into…

passage or a restricting stone to indicate the thresholds. The entrance to the burial chamber is also defined; being an important ritual threshold into the land of the ancestors, where past bleeds into present. These architectural moments along the length of the passage define the ritual/mundane threshold. Moving from the outside world to the sacred chamber, the passage becomes a liminal space, articulated by the arrangement and quality of spaces. The occupant moves from a bright outdoor space,…

dusk) thinned the veil between the natural and supernatural. Liminality, as an abstract zeitgeber, makes life and death appear less restrictive. Indeed, the Celts shared liminal ideas with other premoderns, but instead of dream-states and shamans, theirs was earthier and more egalitarian. Druids were influential, but not liminal gatekeepers; everyone could access Thin Times and Places.…

Turner’s ideas, with that said the film also helped make the ideas clearer. Liminality plays a huge role in the film discussed above as the main characters in the film all deals with being liminal. During the ages of 16-21 individuals from families who identifies as Amish would be considered as adults. Being an adult would give individuals the opportunity to decide if they would like to continue their family’s traditions and become Amish as…

the fetus as a liminal being and it removes some of the moral remorse and social stigma of abortion experience in the United States. One of Lindemann’s main point in the chapter was the identity of a fetus. In Japanese culture fetuses, especially Mizuko jizo, are not labeled as babies. They are not giving the rights, soul, or autonym that a full child has. This is parallel to Lindemann’s idea of the fetus. Both the ritual and the Lindemann recognize that the fetus is a liminal being. Also, like…

Jaime Rivas ID 914273392 ANT 002 Prof. Smriti Srinivas Ritual of the Rumspringa Within most cultures and communities there is alway some ritual to accompany an individual’s transition within the social structure whether higher or lower. Amish religious communities are no exception to this quality. The Amish believe that only an adult is able to truly choose to be baptized and accepted into the church. Thus, when Amish children reach the age of sixteen they enter a stage of their Amish live…

but objects of state-centric human rights discourses. To sum up, policies are written following the logic of a humanitarian discourse, although their syntaxes are carefully designed for being selective and…

My liminal space is being categorized by my race even though I am biracial. Growing up in a border town, Laredo, Texas, as half black and half Mexican was difficult because people would say offensive comments without realizing it. Such as " Wow! You don't look black!" , "You look nothing like your mother!" , or "Your hair is nice considering the mix. School is not difficult, but it was not easy for me because many ignorant people but as "How come you don't act or talk black?", knowing that I…

poisonous, would anyone grab a handful and risk eating them? Is it really possible to compare actual human beings to a candy and base an entire argument on the risk? In “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros and “Outlaw” by Jose Antonio Vargas, both authors shed light on what it is like to be an immigrant, whether legal or undocumented, the reality of being an American immigrant means being in a liminal place as a person because of cultural differences. In both of these stories, we find two…