Rite_of_passage Rite_of_passage

Rite of passage - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Abyss, Acceptance, Access, Acciaccatura, Act, Action, Adit, Adoption, Advance, Adventure, Aisle, Alchemy, Alley, Alteration, Ambulatory, Anacrusis

A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change in a person's social or sexual status. The term was popularised by the French ethnographer Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957), in the early part of the twentieth century. Further theories were developed in the 1960s by Mary Douglas and Victor Turner.

Rites of passage are often ceremonies surrounding events such as childbirth, menarche or other milestones within puberty, weddings, menopause, and death.

Other rites include:

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Example Usage of passage

SummerSplash_at: will wiedermal Vollgas geben!!! Fuck it! Let's party! - Donnerstag, 26. November @ Babenberger passage - wir... http://bit.ly/08OZEEj
CLC187: 11,002 Things to be miserable about the passage of time, broken condoms, dead puppies, the working conditions of migrant laborers,
BAWNDE: If you vote for this bill tonight don't try and tell us later that your against it,we know better if u vote Y then thats a vote for passage
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