The rites of passage
Material type: TextChicago Univ. of Chicago Press c1960Edition: 6th impressionDescription: xxvi,198p.; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type:- text
- unmediated
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- 0-226-84849-3
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1st pub. in 1909. Trans. by Monika B. Vizedom and Gabrielle L. Caffee. Intro. by Solon T. Kimball.
Baptism (Liturgy) : p93-96; p107.. Birth (In Religion, Folklore, etc.) : p41-64.. Initiation Rites and Ceremonies : p65-115.. Marriage : Customs and rites, p116-45.. Funeral Rites and Ceremonies : p146-65.
'Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957) was the first anthropologist to note the regularity and significance of the rituals attached to the transitional stages in man's life, and his phrase for these, "the rites of passaage," has become a part of the language of anthropology and sociology.'
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