platform, or yuntai, which is the main aspect of their coming-of-age ritual. The ceremony signifies that they are now considered adults and as such have defined moral and religious duties. When patriarch and boy stand on the high platform, the former reads out a list of commandments, ...
Rites of passage play a central role in African socialization, demarking the different stages in an individuals development (gender and otherwise), as well as that person's relationship and role to the broader community. The major stage in African life is the transition from child to adult when...
Among the Bonos, particularly those within the municipal area of Takyiman, nubility rites are an important aspect of social life. The weeklong rite of passage forms a transition from girlhood to womanhood. It is a cultural norm among the Bonos of Takyiman for girls to remain virgins until ...
Depending on your relationship with your co-workers, saying goodbye to them could be cause for joy or sorrow. After many years together, colleagues can often feel like family, and a farewell party is a rite of passage for many retirees. Retirement doesn’t mean you have to lose touch with...
Yet, youth- focused rituals, specifically rites of passage, are difficult to find in America today. As such, this paper first briefly explores the theory, definition, function, value, and history of rituals and in particular youth-focused rites of passage. I then utilize an interdisciplinary ...
“rituals are among the most precisely recurrent of social events.”3 This is particularly evident in the fertility rites that organize time socially, with their links to the annual seasons and natureʼs cycle of death and rebirth—the passage from winter to spring and the celebration of the...
Created a municipality in 1871, it numbered almost 42,000 inhabitants at the time of the 1961 census. There are several references in ancient literature to this general aspect of the srirangam temple. Its streets and dwellings were formerly occupied by the servants of the srirangam temple, Brahma...
Created a municipality in 1871, it numbered almost 42,000 inhabitants at the time of the 1961 census. There are several references in ancient literature to this general aspect of the srirangam temple. Its streets and dwellings were formerly occupied by the servants of the srirangam temple, Brahma...
An interesting case concerns the exit from marriage. For a long time in contemporary Western societies, the dissolution of marriage was not regarded as a rite of passage and thus was not formally celebrated in ritual forms (Van Gennep 1909; Grimes 1995). There are two main reasons why ...