INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

VOL. 2 (2009) NO. 1

Contents

(Abstracts only)

• Introduction: Liminality and Cultures of Change

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  Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen, Harald Wydra

• Uses and meanings of liminality

  5

  Bjørn Thomassen

• On the Margins of the Public and the Private: Louis XIV at Versailles

  29

  Peter Burke

• Liminality and the Wild West: The Frontier Myth, Manifest Destiny and the Building of the American Empire

  36

  Stephen Mennell

• Liminality and the unreal class of the image-making craft: An Essay on Political Alchemy

  51

  Agnes Horvath

• Critical Processes and Political Fluidity: a Theoretical Appraisal

  74

  Michel Dobry

• The Liminal Origins of Democracy

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  Harald Wydra

• Liminality and Postcommunism: The Twenty-First Century as the Subject of History

  110

  Richard Sakwa

• Haunted Houses and Liminality: from the Deserted Homes of the “Faithful Departed” to the Social Desert of Schismogenesis

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  Kieran Keohane

• Liminality and Experience: Structuring transitory situations and transformative events

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  Arpad Szakolczai

• NOTES ON AUTHORS

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