This special issue offers new readings of Arnold Van Gennep’s (1873–1957) seminal Les rites de passage, first published in French in 1909 (Van Gennep, 1909). This slim book has provided the intellectual world some invaluable and well-known concepts for the analysis of social lives. Yet, it still tends to be read in a way that very much narrows the scope of its insights and implications. This book’s title is frequently used as a self-standing idiom, hindering further exploration of Rites de passage’s content, and thereby diminishing a full view of its potential contributions to contemporary social research. Shaped by functional and structural sensitivities, conventional assessments allude to Rites de passage when discussing both continuity and change in social lives. Addressing continuity, Van Gennep assumes that events in individual lives, such as marriage or death, can lead to social disorder. He thus asks; how do societies regulate the destabilizing potential of transitions? He responds by analyzing rites that accompany shifts in social roles, as well as movements across territories. This analysis propels him to claim that societies regain stability by ritualistically regulating three phases comprising any passage: separation from society (séparation), a period of margin (la période de marge), and incorporation into society (agrégation). Diverse disciplines from the humanities and social sciences have found this framework highly useful in identifying sequences of rituals and exploring their significance in maintaining social continuity. As for change, Van Gennep develops the concepts of la période de marge and liminality to denote an abeyant period, during which ordinary regulations are suspended. Studies tracing social

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回收 Arnold Van Gennep 的 Les rites de pass（1909）：开放的结构和结构的开放

本期特刊提供了对阿诺德·范热内普 (1873–1957) 开创性的 Les rites de pass 的新解读，该著作于 1909 年首次以法语出版 (Van Gennep, 1909)。这本薄薄的书为知识界提供了一些用于分析社会生活的宝贵且众所周知的概念。然而，人们仍然倾向于以一种大大缩小其见解和含义的范围的方式来阅读它。这本书的标题经常被用作一个独立的成语，阻碍了对《仪式》内容的进一步探索，从而削弱了对其对当代社会研究的潜在贡献的全面了解。受功能和结构敏感性的影响，在讨论社会生活的连续性和变化时，传统评估会暗指通过仪式。谈到连续性，Van Gennep 假设个人生活中的事件，比如结婚或死亡，都会导致社会混乱。他这样问；社会如何调节转型带来的破坏稳定的潜力？他通过分析伴随社会角色转变以及跨地区运动的仪式来做出回应。这种分析促使他声称社会通过仪式性地调节包括任何通道的三个阶段来恢复稳定：与社会分离（分离）、边缘时期（la période de marge）和融入社会（agrégation）。人文和社会科学的不同学科发现这个框架在识别仪式序列和探索它们在维持社会连续性方面的重要性方面非常有用。至于变化，Van Gennep 发展了 la période de marge 和 liminality 的概念来表示一个中止的时期，在此期间，普通法规暂停。研究追踪社会