2017 Article Editorial note

Kinbaku: The Liminal and the Liminoid in Ritual Performance

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Heath Pennington examines kinbaku as ritual performance using the concepts of liminality and the liminoid, situating the practice within Japanese cultural traditions.

The article offers a performance-studies argument against reducing kinbaku to a pathological category; its historical interpretation should be read as the author's argument rather than an uncontested origin story.

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