Alternative Cultural Heterotopia and the Liminoid Body: Beyond Turner at ConFest
2001; Wiley; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1835-9310.2001.tb00232.x
ISSN1835-9310
Autores Tópico(s)Crime and Detective Fiction Studies
ResumoThe Australian Journal of AnthropologyVolume 12, Issue 1 p. 47-66 Alternative Cultural Heterotopia and the Liminoid Body: Beyond Turner at ConFest St. Graham John, St. Graham John 18 Jackson Street, Northcote, Vic., 3070Search for more papers by this author St. Graham John, St. Graham John 18 Jackson Street, Northcote, Vic., 3070Search for more papers by this author First published: 08 March 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.2001.tb00062.xCitations: 50AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract This article takes issue with Victor Turner's influential, yet essentialist, category of the limen. While acknowledging Turner's continuing significance in the analysis of public events, I draw upon detailed ethnography of one of Australia's contemporary pilgrimage centres, the alternative lifestyle event ConFest, to reconfigure his project. Although ConFest may prove to be an exemplary field of liminality, as a decidedly contested and sensuous landscape, it demands re-evaluation of the implicitly consensual and non-carnal limen. I offer the concepts of alternative cultural heterotopia and liminoid embodiment, with the purpose of fashioning new directions in the study of alternative lifestyle, and other public events. 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