Rituals of the Past in Contexts of Global Social Change
12 pages
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This review considers a particular class of rituals related to substantial biological and social changes in all individuals' lives, otherwise known as 'rites of passage' according to Arnold van Gennep, who was the first to name and analyze them in his famous anthropological study.... ... ... ... These rituals are viewed with concern of their complex entanglement within the puzzle of interrelations between gender, kinship, religion, politics, and power, in different communities, societies, and cultural patterns; in order to be seen the extent of shrinking (if any) of the specific, and why not crucial, role....