Important Rituals (Example)

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Name Institution Professor Date RITES OF PASSAGE This is a ritual undertaken by communities to celebrate and mark a transition from one stage of people’s lives to another like birth coming of age marriage and death. Every community has its way of carrying out these rituals. Victor Turner developed three phases in the rites of passage which one go through in the transition process. The first phase is separation where the person undergoing the ritual is disconnected from the previous group and social status. The second is the liminal or transition phase where the person at this phase has no clear defined status and is prepared to undertake the new status and new roles in the community (Turner Pg4). The final stage is the reincorporation phase which now introduces the person to the new group and status. to be married and the boys allowed to marry. They are also entrusted with social responsibilities to exercise what they learned in their seclusion. CONCLUSION The life cycle has four rites of passages namely; birth coming of age marriage and death. In this paper we have discussed two rites of passage birth and coming of age. After the coming of age the girls and boys are eligible to form families which they do so by going through the third passage of marriage. The fourth passage comes when one dies. All these rituals are important in the community for they unite people and communities. WORK CITED Van Gennep Arnold. The rites of passage. University of Chicago Press 2011. Turner Victor. "Betwixt and between: The liminal period in rites of passage." Betwixt and between: Patterns of masculine and feminine initiation (1987): 3-19. [...]

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well-written essay -Rites of Passage are important rituals that mark a change in status and or life stage. Describe two Rites of Passage from the viewpoint of Victor Turner's 3 stages (They are Separation, Transition or the Liminal-Betwixt & Between phase, and Reintegration or Reincorporation phase). What important symbols were used in the rituals to signify a change in status was taking place? (NO graduations because that was the example used in class unless you had a very, very different graduation ritual.)