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Pandemic liminal - Anthropologist Victor Turner’s work on transitional states may shed light on people’s pandemic experiences of the betwixt and between.
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The Pandemic and the Process of Becoming

Sarah Osterhoudt
With no end to the COVID-19 pandemic in sight, people find themselves in a prolonged liminal state of transition. Why does that feel so unsettling?