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Arnold van Gennep (23 April, 1873 - 1957) was a noted French ethnographer and folklorist.

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 to Savoy.
   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 of folklore in France.
   When the time came he went to Paris to study at the Sorbonne, but was disappointed that the school didn't offer the subjects he wanted. So he enrolled at the Ecole des langues orientales to study Arabic 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 in Switzerland 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 anthropologist Victor Turner's research, particularly his 1969 text, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure.

Works

The Rites of Passage, 1909.Further Information

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