ANT208H5 Lecture 10: Rites of Passages
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Rites of passage: experience them as individuals, rituals are based on universal process. 1. birth: become inter-grated into society. 3. puberty: transition people into adulthood. 4. initiation: ex: graduation, ex: courtship. Involves community and different actives in the past. 6. parenthood: childbirth, baby showers, childbirth marks a women from a single women to a mother, it is social recognition. Rites of passage: sucession: ex: 1952 when queen was cornered. Gave them the big nger: people noticed that the revolution became a failure and lost the support of people, ex: willian jerf ern in 1993. Clinton has a drug connection with the family. Ritual gives you the respect for the entire nation. Thought that ritual was involved into a process. Looked at ritual as a regulator of social control. Inspiration to engerinnering and lingustics: 2. Looked at ritual as being homo spavin for maintaining social boundaries. Way of seeing the difference between age, gender.