单词 | communitas |
释义 | communitasn. 1. A community; a body of people acting collectively; (Law) = corporation n. 5a. historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > [noun] > a community commoninga1400 society1535 weal-public1541 communialty?1574 family1794 communitas1841 society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > corporation or body corporate towna1382 body corporate1461 corporation1579 corporalty1603 university1607 individual1828 communitas1841 1841 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. London 4 100 The guardianship of the Thames, with all the trusts that have been aggregated around it, is vested in the Corporation of London, as representing the old ‘Communitas’ of the metropolis. 1894 Eng. Hist. Rev. 9 753 A merchant gild did not exist, and craft gilds were by charter of 1256 prohibited as interfering with the general interests of the communitas. 1911 Times 11 Sept. 11/5 It might..be legally contended that this disafforesting grant transferred the fishing in the Wye..to the communitas of the men of Irchenfield. 1997 S. Reynolds Kingdoms & Communities in Western Europe, 900–1300 (ed. 2) v. 138 People seem to have been ready and able to act collectively in any group that had common interests in the matter in hand. Any of these groups might be described quite loosely as a universitas or communitas. 2. Cultural Anthropology. A strong sense of solidarity and bonding that develops among people experiencing a ritual, rite of passage, or other transitional state together. Cf. liminality n. ΚΠ 1969 V. W. Turner Ritual Process iv. 131 Essentially, communitas is a relationship between concrete, historical, idiosyncratic individuals. 1971 Man 6 307/1 There remains, however, the wider question of the whether communitas is indeed found in all human societies. 1994 Ethnology 33 175 Not everyone who participates in festivals experiences communitas, but many do. 2001 M. V. Wiley Arnis xvii. 125 The social aspect of collective liminality is known as communitas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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