Andrea Rowley - Liminality

Aside from communitas, liminality was one of my favorite terms to become familiar with this semester. Turner described liminality as "the state and process of mid-transition in a right of passage" (249). I find myself applying this term to my life every chance that I get. For one, I love putting a scholarly term to something you have always been able to describe but never knew what to call it. I've applied this term to myself, to my friend who recently graduated into being a marine, and to my brother who is on the verge of leaving this youthful stage of his life behind in order to do something with his degree in Psychology. I love the ambiguity of the in-between phase and knowing that what you enter the phase to become may not be the person you thought you would be when you left it.