Death as a rite of passage: the iconography of the Moche Burial Theme

Antiquity ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (277) ◽  
pp. 528-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Hill
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Rite Of Passage

The application of van Gennep's Rites of Passage structure to iconography and mortuary contexts in the Late Moche period of Peru offers an original means of exploring prehistoric concepts of death.

The Modern Boy’s Rite of Passage and the Lacking Component of Transcendental Death Acknowledgement

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-233
Author(s):  
Elias Hage
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Memento Mori ◽  
Insight Into

This article explores the historical tendencies of male rites of passage and the modern expression of rite of passage as lacking the central component of transcendental death acknowledgement (Memento Mori) as seen for years past in various cultures. This article examines the necessity of developing an attunement toward objective transcendentalism among youth upon which an understanding of death may be appropriately developed. Without such a foundation, Memento Mori formulates hopelessness and fear within the boy, stunting his rite of passage into manhood. After offering cultural examples of death acknowledgement, we shall enter an analysis of Memento Mori on today’s cultural relativistic subjectivism to underscore the importance of objective transcendentalism before the incorporation of death acknowledgement within the rite of passage of the boy. This article concludes by offering insight into modern incorporation of Memento Mori within local communities.

scholarly journals Rite of Passage and Psychotherapy

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-108
Author(s):  
E.G. Grebenyuk
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Movement Therapy ◽  
Analytical Psychology ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Transcultural Psychotherapy

Anthropological notion of the rite of passage and its stages are viewed. Different psychotherapeutic approaches (psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, trauma, transpersonal and transcultural psychotherapy, dance movement therapy, narrative approach and community work), which address to the structure and symbolic meaning of the rites of passage, are compared. Systematization of client requests and corresponding psychotherapeutic objectives based on the rite of passage as a metaphor of life changes is proposed. Opportunities of using metaphor in modern society are analyzed.

Rites of Passage: Jewish Representations of Children and Childhood in Contemporary Cinema

2021 ◽  
pp. 170-187
Author(s):  
Nathan Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
Bat Mitzvah ◽  
Contemporary Cinema

Despite the great importance Judaism places on children, childhood is a curiously overlooked topic in Jewish film and television studies. This chapter proposes to begin filling the gap by exploring how the universal theme of childhood has been represented in more specific ways, focusing on Jewish cinema specifically. By exploring a series of representations of children and childhood (sometimes Jewish, sometimes not) up to and including the age of 13, it examines films dealing with the child en route to adulthood through the key rite of passage of bar/bat mitzvah; the child as vulnerable and in need of protection, but whose childhood is brutally cut short during the Holocaust; and films in which childhood is not explicitly Jewish but can be read thus. Such representations consider the condition of children and childhood as a comment on the Jewish condition in contemporary society.

Traveling a Hard Road: Rites of Passage to Adulthood for Females of Haitian Descent Living in the Dominican Republic

2021 ◽  
pp. 074355842110148
Author(s):  
Ida Salusky
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Spanish Caribbean ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Adult Identity ◽  
Adult Role ◽  
Global Discourse

This article examines the rites of passage for poor girls of Haitian descent living in the Dominican Republic. In the Dominican context, preparation for and the transition to wife and mother historically served as an important rite of passage to an adult identity. Industrialization and the global discourse surrounding young motherhood increasingly challenges this culturally sanctioned practice. No research has examined how perceptions around rites of passage to an adult female identity are evolving across generations within the Spanish Caribbean. The author conducted an ethnographic project that included the use of in-depth life history interviews with 42 participants. She interrogates the narratives of three generations of adolescent girls and women of Haitian descent using modified grounded theory to (a) describe current culturally acceptable pathways to becoming an adult woman and (b) examine shifts taking place across time regarding acceptable pathways to womanhood. Findings suggest that, increasingly, younger generations no longer perceive marriage and motherhood as the singular rite of passage to adulthood. Yet, additional skills and characteristics that the participants identified as important to effectively transition to an adult role are either very difficult for the poor to attain, or are acquired through the experience of marriage and motherhood.

Intoxication and Rite of Passage to Adulthood in Norway

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Sande
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Young People ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Field Methods ◽  
A Value ◽  
Expressive Individualism ◽  
Symbolic Anthropology

The author describes young Norwegians' use of alcohol in “russefeiring,” a special rite of passage to adulthood in the form of prolonged graduation parties. In this ritual, the young people wear special clothes, celebrate, and drink beer and spirits from the 1st through the 17th of May. The article argues that young people have invented rites of passage in which expressive individualism is stressed as a value. The article discusses the use of symbolic anthropology and sociology and field methods in research relating to this kind of ritual alcohol use and intoxication. Theoretically, the focus is on studying alcohol use as a ritual practice. Use of alcohol can be defined as a key symbol in these ritual processes, offering an opportunity to communicate meaning between members of the society and culture concerned.

Adolescent Rites of Passage: An Experiential Model

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen F. Venable
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Developmental Changes ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Contextual Framework

The purpose of this article is to define and describe healthy developmental changes which can be nurtured and enhanced in adolescents through an experiential program based on a rite of passage model. The origins and context of adolescence as a cultural phenomenon are discussed. Also, rites of passage are defined and illustrated and placed in a contextual framework conducive for use with teenagers. The application of a rite of passage designed to usher teens from adolescence to adulthood as used by the author during a backpacking experience is discussed.

scholarly journals Images of alcohol in the adolescents’ life of one quilombola community

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 468-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Nunes Moraes-Partelli ◽  
Ivone Evangelista Cabral
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
The North ◽  
Final Consideration ◽  
Soccer Fields ◽  
Sensitive Method

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the images of alcohol in the rite of passage of adolescents of a quilombola community. Method: Qualitative and participatory study was developed by Creative and Sensitive Method, and guided by generated questions: “In my house, alcohol is...”; “Near my house, I see alcohol in...” Ten adolescents who live in a quilombola community in the north of the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil, participated in the group dynamics. The material was submitted to a thematic analysis. Results: Images of alcohol are common in the daily life of adolescents and can be seen in bars drinks, in their homes or in soccer fields; in different moments within the community (weekend barbecues, church celebrations, after soccer); and also in rites of passage, where adolescents first sipped or tasted alcohol with friends or socially with adults. Final Consideration: Alcohol in quilombola communities is cultural, and socially accepted, which turns it into a challenge for health professionals to promote health education with these adolescents.

Turning Boys Into Men: The Incentive-Based System in Urban Meyer’s Plan to Win

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Gavazzi
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Ohio State University ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
State University ◽  
Mature Individual ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Successful Team ◽  
Football Coach ◽  
The Ohio State University ◽  
Media Reports

This paper examines the incentive-based system of Urban Meyer, head football coach at The Ohio State University. Personal discussions with this coach and members of his football staff took place following a review of his methods as described in biographical and media reports, and were compared with the approaches used by other successful coaches as documented in coaching research. Meyer has created clear guidelines and expectations for behaviors that players must consistently display to be recognized as successful team members and leaders. He also has developed a comprehensive set of processes to promote the development and adherence to those desired behaviors. This examination of Meyer’s approach focuses on the connection between the three levels (Blue, Red and Gold) of his incentive-based system and the three phases of a rite of passage (separation, transformation, and reincorporation) associated with them. The system rewards more grownup behaviors with greater status and privileges befitting the increasingly mature individual. A case is made that coaches can employ such a rites of passage framework as part of a comprehensive philosophy about turning boys into men, thus encouraging successful outcomes both on and off the field.

Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

1979 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Paul Ramsey
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Pass Through

“We are a civilization without: lsquo;puberty rites,’ without ‘rites of passage,’ without rituals, ordeals, or vigils that the young must pass through to demonstrate that they can now be accepted as men and women among the elders. … So our youngsters have devised their own initiation ceremonies. For boys and girls, no longer being a virgin is one such rite of passage. For girls, getting pregnant is another ritual certification that they have attained, by rite, significance in their own right. This is all pitiful and very sad.”

Repositioning Study Abroad as a Rite of Passage

2016 ◽  
pp. 89-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Starr-Glass
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Transformative Experience ◽  
Missed Opportunity

Study abroad can be an exhilarating and transformative experience literally moving students to a place where globalization, internationalization, and cultural awareness are direct experiences, not simply classroom abstractions. Study abroad provides multiple social and learning benefits for students, but in addition it also adds to the vibrancy of their colleges. However, despite these benefits, study abroad still remains a missed opportunity for most US student and their institutions. This chapter advocates that study abroad should be recognized and celebrated as an important rite of passage in undergraduate life. Thus reconceptualized, students might place renewed value on the study abroad experience and colleges might be able to promote such initiatives more effectively. The chapter explores the dynamics of rites of passage, the urgent need for significant rites of passage in undergraduate life, and how study abroad experiences can be strategically repositioned to benefit both students and their colleges.

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