Arnold van Gennep
- Arnold van Gennep
Arnold van Gennep (
23 April ,1873 - 1957) was a noted Frenchethnographer andfolklorist .Biography
He was born in
Ludwigsburg ,Kingdom of Württemberg . At the age of six his parents divorced and he and his mother moved to France where she later married a French doctor who moved the family toSavoy .Van Gennep is best known for his work regarding
rites of passage ceremonies and his significant works in modern French folklore. He is recognised as the of the field offolklore inFrance .When the time came he went to
Paris to study at theSorbonne , but was disappointed that the school did not offer the subjects he wanted. So he enrolled at the Ecole des langues orientales to studyArabic and at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes for philology, general linguistics, Egyptology, Ancient Arabic, primitive religions, and Islamic culture. This independence was to be shown the remainder of his life. He never held an academic position in France.From 1912 to 1915 he held the Chair of Ethnography at the
University of Neuchatel inSwitzerland but was expelled for expressing doubts about the neutrality of Switzerland during World War I. There he reorganized the museum and organized the first ethnographical conference (1914). In 1922 he toured the United States.His most famous work is "Les rites de passage" (The Rites of Passage) (1909) which includes his vision of rites of passage rituals as being divided into three phases: "preliminary," "
liminaire "(a stage much studied by Victor Turner), and "postliminaire".His major work in French folklore was "Le Manuel de folklore francais contemporain" (1937-1958).
He died in 1957 at
Bourg-la-Reine ,France .Influences
*"The Rites of Passage" was highly influential in the structuring of
Joseph Campbell 's 1949 text, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces ", as Campbell divides the journey of the hero into three parts, "Departure", "Initiation," and "Return".
* "The Rites of passage" influenced anthropologistVictor Turner 's research, particularly his 1969 text, "The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure".Works
* "The Rites of Passage", 1909. [Van Gennep, Arnold. "The Rites of Passage".
University of Chicago Press , 1960. [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/2449.ctl "web page"] ]Notes
References
Belmont, Nicole " Arnold Van Gennep: The Creator of French Ethnography" Derek Coltman trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979
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