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Van Gennep published Les rites de passage, naming the three-phase structure, in which year? Set the slider.
Estimate on a scale from 1860 to 1960.
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- Before the First World War.
- The same decade as Durkheim’s major religion work.
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1909 (answers within ±8 count)
Why
- Turner would revive the schema half a century later, turning the neglected middle phase into anthropology’s most famous threshold.
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