Communitas a Latin noun referring either to an unstructured community in which people are equal, or to the very spirit of community. It also has special significance as a loanword in cultural anthropology and the social sciences. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) which can co-occur with (in)definite articles and attributive adjectives, and function as the head of a noun phrase. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... A loanword is a word directly taken into by one language from another with little or no translation. ... Cultural anthropology, also called social anthropology or socio-cultural anthropology, forms one of four commonly-recognized fields of anthropology, the holistic study of humanity. ... The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of ice cream cones and fairy dances. ...

Communitas is an intense community spirit, the feeling of great social equality, solidarity, and togetherness. Communitas is characteristic of people experiencing liminality together. This term is used to distinguish the modality of social relationship from an area of common living. There is more than one distinction between structure and communitas. The most familiar being the difference of secular and sacred. Every social position has something sacred about it. This sacred component is acquired during rites of passages, through the changing of positions. Part of this sacredness is achieved through the transient humility learned in these phases, this allows people to reach a higher position. This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... The English word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning breath. ... // Latin root meaning The term social is derived from the Latin word socius, which as a noun means an associate, ally, companion, business partner or comrade and in the adjectival form socialis refers to a bond between people (such as marriage) or to their collective or connected existence. ... EQUAL is a popular artificial sweetener Equal (sweetener) Equality can mean several things: Mathematical equality Social equality Racial equality Sexual equality Equality of outcome Equality, a town in Illinois See also Equity Egalitarianism Equals sign This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise... Solidarity (Polish: Solidarność; full name: Independent Self-governing Trade Union Solidarity — Niezależny SamorzÄ…dny ZwiÄ…zek Zawodowy Solidarność) is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the GdaÅ„sk Shipyards, and originally led by Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary. ... Liminality (from the Latin word lÄ«men, meaning a threshold) is the quality of the second stage of a ritual in the theories of Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner, and others. ... In music, modality is the subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as modes (e. ... See: relational model personal relationship mathematical relationship, including: inverse relationship direct relationship relation (mathematics). ... The structure of a thing is how the parts of it relate to each other, how it is put together. This contrast with process, which is how the thing works; but process requires a viable structure. ... This article concerns secularity, that is, being secular, in various senses. ... In various religions, sacred (from Latin, sacrum, sacrifice) or holy, objects, places or concepts are believed by followers to be intimately connected with the supernatural, or divinity, and are thus greatly revered. ...

Communitas is an acute point of community. It takes community to the next level and allows the whole of the community to share a common experience, usually through a rite of passage. This brings everyone onto an equal level, even if you are higher in position, you have been lower and you know what that is. This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ...

Communitas as a concept used by Victor Turner in his study of ritual has recently been criticised by anthropologists. See Eade & Sallnow's 'Contesting the Sacred' (1991) Victor W. Turner (May 28, 1920 - 1983) was a renowned anthropologist. ...

Sources:

Turner, Victor. "Rituals and Communitas." Creative Resistance. 26 Nov. 2005 <http://citationmachine.net/>.

Eade & Sallnow, 'Contesting the Sacred' (1991)

External Links

• Creating Communitas, a project at www.wechange.org, including two books by Forbes Leslie: Communal Sustainability and Forming Tribalized Communities.