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van Gennep, Charles Arnold

A Dictionary of Sociology | 1998 | 281 words | Copyright

van Gennep, Charles Arnold (1873–1957) An ethnologist of Dutch and French parentage whose Rites of Passage (1909) is a classic in the social anthropological study of ritual. He encouraged an ethnographic approach to the study of European folklore. See also RITES OF PASSAGE.

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