Rites of passage
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Cultural practices, Traditions, Initation, YouthAbstract
While all rituals and rites acknowledge change, however minimal, rites of passage reflect the psychocultural treatment of social groups with regard to key moments in individual or collective existence, under a linear or cyclical temporal rhythm. The theorization of A. Van Gennep, followed by that of V.W. Turner, emphasizes ritual tripartite scansion, featuring separation from one's previous status or world, expectation and impregnation of knowledge in an a-structure, and (re)integration into society. The breakdown of traditional forms of rites of passage, due to a variety of factors, questions not so much orthodoxy as the current challenges of human development and more or less extensive relations between societies.
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