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.”

To Be or Not To Be A Citizen: Young People Talks about Everyday Experiences of Citizenship in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Noor Banu Mahadir Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Transitional Stage ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Service Placement ◽  
Pass Through

Citizenship is generally understood as an adult experience. Being young is seen as a transitional stage between 'childhood' and 'adulthood ' where young people either learn about becoming adults or where they pass through certain 'rites of passage'. This paper draws on some of the findings from a larger project on citizenship and citizenship education experiences among student teachers in multi-ethnic Malaysia. This article attempts to explore the citizenship experiences through the student teachers participation during the community service placement and their understanding of good citizens in multi-ethnic culture. It also intends to explore the young generations’ point of view as being citizens of Malaysia, such as their rights and duties, how they perceived good and bad citizenship and how they understand the language of citizenship. In the spirit of ethnographic design, twenty eight multi-ethnic student teachers (year 2 and year 4) who enrolled into citizenship and citizenship education course in Sultan Idris Education University (SIEU) had been interviewed and observed at university and on placement. The data was analysed using a thematic analysis.The findings revealed that student teachers ‘lived citizenship’ marked comprehensive yet complex elements of citizenship. They have clear understandings of citizenship in ‘Malaysian way’ that pointed more towards communitarian than liberal or civic-republican citizenship paradigms. They drew clear distinctions between what it means to be a ‘good’ and a ‘bad ‘citizen’. They also underlined how everyday understandings of citizenship can have both inclusionary and exclusionary implications. Further study need to be done as some of student teachers faced difficulty articulating their rights than their responsibilities.

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.

Initiation as a Factor and the Way of Social and Gender Identitfication

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-82
Author(s):  
Natalia Ksenofontova ◽  
Nina Grishina
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Gender Identification ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
And Gender

The article is devoted to the consideration of one of the most important institutions of traditional society – the initiatives that scientists refer to the so-called rites of passage of boys and girls in the age class of men and women. The authors show on numerous examples of different African ethnic groups that initiations are a significant cultural phenomenon as a factor and a way of social and gender identification. Despite the fact that this custom on the continent is observed in some tribes and peoples still, while maintaining its cultural and social significance, it has many opponents not only among feminists, but also representatives of the official authorities and politicians. The article provides statistical data on the spread of this ritual in various countries of modern Africa and analyzes the documents of governments and international organizations designed to combat this archaic phenomenon.

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.

scholarly journals Becoming and Being a Woman: Meanings and Values of Labial Elongation for Zambians in Cape Town

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 986
Author(s):  
Guillermo Martínez Pérez ◽  
Mwenya Mubanga ◽  
Concepción Tomás Aznar ◽  
Brigitte Bagnol
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Grounded Theory Research ◽  
Social Wellbeing ◽  
Theory Research ◽  
Female Genital

Zambian women might doubt whether to stop or preserve labial elongation, which is a female genital modification instructed to the girl child as the first rite of passage into womanhood. We conducted a grounded theory research among Zambian men and women who had immigrated to Cape Town. Twenty women and seventeen men participated. Beliefs and perceptions around womanhood, gender roles and pleasure place elongation as a practice that is highly valued by Zambians in South Africa. Interventions to promote and improve women’s sexual health –such as capacity building of healthcare professionals and design of information, education and communication materials– can be informed by framing and documenting the implications for the Zambian migrant women’s sexual and social wellbeing of this practice.

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.

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.

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