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	Topics Arnold van Gennep Topic Home Arnold van Gennep was a noted FrenchFrance France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and whi... ethnographer and folklorist. Biography He was born in LudwigsburgLudwigsburg Ludwigsburg is a city in Germany, about 12 km north of Stuttgart's city center, near the river Neckar.... , Kingdom of WürttembergKingdom of Württemberg The Kingdom of W?rttemberg was a state that existed from 1806 to 1918 and is currently located in Baden-W?rttemberg, German... . At the age of six his parents divorced and he and his mother moved to France where she later married a French doctor who moved the family to SavoySavoy In modern France, Savoy is part of the Rhne-Alpes region.... . Van Gennep is best known for his work regarding rites of passage ceremonies and his significant works in modern French folklore. He is recognised as the of the field of folkloreFolklore Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular b... in FranceFrance Summary France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and whi... . When the time came he went to ParisParis native_name = Ville de Paris\|common_name = Paris... to study at the SorbonneSorbonne The name Sorbonne is commonly used to refer to the historic University of Paris or one of its successor institutions, but th... , but was disappointed that the school did not offer the subjects he wanted. So he enrolled at the Ecole des langues orientales to study Arabic and at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes for philology, general linguistics, Egyptology, Ancient Arabic, primitive religions, and Islamic culture. This independence was to be shown the remainder of his life. He never held an academic position in France. From 1912 to 1915 he held the Chair of Ethnography at the University of NeuchatelUniversity of Neuchâtel image = \|name = University of Neuch?tel... in SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked Alpine country in Central Europe.... but was expelled for expressing doubts about the neutrality of Switzerland during World War I. There he reorganized the museum and organized the first ethnographical conference (1914). In 1922 he toured the United States. His most famous work is Les rites de passage (The Rites of Passage) (1909) which includes his vision of rites of passage rituals as being divided into three phases: preliminary, liminaire(a stage much studied by Victor Turner), and postliminaire. His major work in French folklore was Le Manuel de folklore francais contemporain (1937-1958). He died in 1957 at Bourg-la-ReineBourg-la-Reine Bourg-la-Reine is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France.... , FranceFrance France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and whi... . Influences The Rites of Passage was highly influential in the structuring of Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell Joseph Campbell was an American professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mytholog... 's 1949 text, The Hero with a Thousand FacesThe Hero with a Thousand Faces *The Hero with a Thousand Faces* is the seminal work of comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell.... , as Campbell divides the journey of the hero into three parts, Departure, Initiation, and Return. The Rites of passage influenced anthropologist Victor TurnerVictor Turner Victor Witter Turner was a renowned anthropologist.... 's research, particularly his 1969 text, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Works The Rites of Passage, 1909.