Rites of Passage in Australia

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Social Issues

 

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Edward B

 

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August 26, 2011

 

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University

 

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Arnold Van Gennep (1960) noted that any movement within the social structure involves a temporary separation from the individual's role in that society (Schultz & Lavenda, 2005, p167). In !Kung culture, the formalized separation during the male initiation ceremony of Choma, demonstrates the structure found universally in most rituals of social movement, as well as the necessity for a period of separation from social role (Shostak 2002, p...
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Separation from the social position of boys under the authority of the academic institution, was a process principally marked by liberation from the restraints and regulations of high school life, and an introduction to the responsibilities of manhood. The ritual of the graduation ceremony symbolizes this comradeship through the celebration of the ?essential and genetic human bond[s]' (Turner 1969, p...
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