A return to Turner
Liminalities in Afrikaner identity politics after apartheid
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2186673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kees Van Der Waal (0000-0001-9527-1513, Stellenbosch University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 62-72 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology Southern Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2332-3264 • E-ISSN: 2332-3256 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23323256.2011.11500009 |
| OpenAlex | W2510316031 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article explores interpretive possibilities offered by the concept of liminality in the context of identity politics in South Africa in an attempt to build on the rich and stimulating work of Victor Turner towards a comparative and contextual analysis. Degrees and variations of liminality are identified; I am interested, for instance, in whether it is part of hegemonic domination or tactical resistance, historically structured or innovative, and how it is related to class, gender and race in order to go beyond structural positions and social categories. After looking at the current South African transition as a liminal phase, manifestations of Afrikaner/Afrikaans cultural politics are investigated on the level of individual and collective liminality, drawing from the literature, fieldwork and personal experience. With regard to individual and social identity based on Afrikaans, liminality appears, under certain conditions, as either a form of defensive victimhood or as social connectedness and creolisation
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Hegemony · Identity (music · Liminality · Political science · Politics · Social connectedness · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology · South African History and Culture
The Afrikaners
The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
Social Construction of the Past
Liminality and Disability
Anthropology Southern Africa
Afrikaners in the New South Africa
The New Politics of Afrikaans
Ritual, Anti-Structure, and Religion
Frame, flow and reflection
Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance
Physical disability and social liminality
The Anthropology of Performance
The Established and the Outsiders
Exploring the Work of Victor Turner
From "Rights" to "Ritual
The politics of the liminal and the liminoid in transfrontier conservation in southern Africa
Transformation as social drama
Categorical difference versus continuum
Liminoid religion
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |