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A liminal being is one that cannot be easily placed into a single category of existence. Associated with the threshold state of liminality, such beings represent and highlight the semi-autonomous boundaries of the social world.〔Frank Musgrove, ''Margins of the Mind'' (Taylor & Francis) p. 8〕 Liminal beings are naturally ambiguous, challenging the cultural networks of social classification.〔Dean A. Nicholas, ''The Trickster Revisited'' p. 37〕 ==Liminal entities== Victor Turner considered that liminal entities, such as those undergoing initiation rites, often appeared in the form of monsters, so as to represent the co-presence of opposites - high/low; good/bad - in the liminal experience.〔J. C. Alexander and S. Seidman, ''Culture and Society'' (Cambridge 1990) p. 147-9〕 Liminal personas are structurally and socially invisible, having left one set of classifications and not yet entered another.〔Thomas Quartier, ''Bridging the Gaps'' p. 103-4〕 Mary Douglas has highlighted the dangerous aspects of such liminal beings,〔Llynne Hume, ''Portals'' (2007) p. 110〕 but they are also potentially beneficent. Thus we often find presiding over a ritual's liminal stage a semi-human shaman figure, or a powerful mentor with animal aspects, such as a centaur.〔Aniela Jaffe and Joseph Henderson, in C. G. Jung ed., ''Man and his Symbols'' (London 19780 p. 261-2 and p. 101〕 By extension, liminal beings of a mixed, hybrid nature appear regularly in myth, legend and fantasy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Liminal being」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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