ANTH 1034 Lecture Notes - Trans Woman, Enculturation

• School: Lakehead University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1034
• Professor: Hollis Moore

Document Summary

9 text 228 233: rites of passage (cid:224) rituals that accompany changes in status, such as the transition from boyhood to manhood, living to dead, or student to graduate, three phrases, ritual seperates th person from an existing identity (cid:224) separation, person enters a transition phase (cid:224) transition ( liminality betwixt and between", changes are incorporated into a new identity (cid:224) reintegration, note: phases not equally elaborated in specific ceremonies. Fraternity initiation ritual is the culmination or a period of pledging in which initiates are required to perform various demeaning acts: three phases, seperation (cid:224) from previous identity as a member of a family ( perhaps separating from his mother in particular, transition/ liminality (cid:224) ritual stigmatizes initiates as infants, children, or girls, reincorporation (cid:224) initiate joins the group as a man; groups activities reinforce a male ientity, defined largely by degradation of the negative identity of female and acted out in sexual conquest and abuse of females.