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Liminality, a Rare card
In anthropology, liminality is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 181
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 290,000
Power 181 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Liminality quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Liminality card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
More recently, usage of the term has broadened to describe ______ and cultural change as well as rites.
Answer
political. More recently, usage of the term has broadened to describe political and cultural change as well as rites. From the Liminality article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Special relativity. Special relativity 92 · CC Sabathia 88 · Jarome Iginla 85 · Liminality 82 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- During a rite's liminal stage, participants "stand at the threshold" between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new way.
- The concept of liminality was first developed in the early twentieth century by folklorist Arnold van Gennep and later taken up by Victor Turner.
- More recently, usage of the term has broadened to describe political and cultural change as well as rites.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Liminality article was read about 290,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Liminality
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Liminality (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Steve Evans from Citizen of the World, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
