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liminalcaste

black-and-white photograph of a lone open doorway standing in an empty misty field, with fallen leaves and a small carved pumpkin on the threshold.

what is liminality? van gennep, turner, and halloween

Sepia dystopian scene with a photographer, a shrouded body and hooded figures amid ruins

who carries the function now

Figure stepping into a glowing computer screen surrounded by masks and fire

the internet as the new liminal space

Sepia painting of a griot playing a stringed instrument before a crowd

the griot in the diaspora

Sepia scene of Roma people by a fire near a police car and a wagon wheel

the roma today

Giant hand working marionette strings over figures in a shantytown office

what happened to the liminal caste under modernity