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rite: a standalone construct

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Anthropology

A rite of passage marking a change of social state

Van Gennep's 1909 Les rites de passage named the rites that carry a person across a threshold of social life, such as birth, initiation, marriage, and death, and showed that they tend to move through three phases: separation from an old status, a middle phase betwixt statuses, and incorporation into a new one. Turner's 1969 The Ritual Process developed that middle phase, the liminal state, in which the person is held for a time outside the ordinary order. The referent is a bounded ceremony that relocates an individual from one social position to another, which differs from a standing form of worship or from an entire order of proper conduct.[1][2]

Unit
One ceremony that moves a person from one social status to another
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Measured by
Documented by ethnographic fieldwork and compared across cultures by the stages a ceremony moves through

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References

  1. van Gennep, A. (1909). Les rites de passage. Émile Nourry.
  2. Turner, V. W. (1969). The ritual process: Structure and anti-structure. Aldine.

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