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van Gennep, Charles Arnold
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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