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I start the analysis regarding the concept transformation by referring to anthropologists studying communities with rituals that aimed at transformation of the participants. When Victor Turner in 1969 published The Ritual Process, he had had a long period of experiences, of which, especially living with the Ndembu, from 1950 to 1954, brought him to a rich ethnographic reportage. In The Ritual Process he extended the analytic framework of Arnold van Gennep (1909), produced more than fifty years ago. Roger D. Abrahams (1995) writes about this extended analytic framework mentioning the ritual progression in three steps (separation from the everyday flow of activities, a passage through a threshold state into a ritual world, where the structures of everyday life are both elaborated and challenged, and a reentry into the world of everyday life).
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Østern, AL. (2011). Transformation. In: Schonmann, S. (eds) Key Concepts in Theatre/Drama Education. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-332-7_10
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