ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rite Of Passage, Social Reproduction, Old Age
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Lecture 8: descent and the life cycle (what goes around comes around) What are they (universal?) moments in the human life cycle: birth, puberty, marriage, [old age, death. These are also the moments at which descent groups come together to mark an individual"s transition from one phase of life to another, usually though ritual means. The moments in which people may disperse and become their own. Kin group gets their own identity markers from this. People will be given situations that are hard to handle but they need to deal with it in some sort of way: we can see modiied versions of this desire to wait for children to. Prove themselves before marking their arrival in traditions such as naming ceremonies, baptism, and circumcision, all of which allow a pause between birth and social marking of the child"s arrival as a member of the kin group.
