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Elementy rytuału przejścia w „Innym” Jurija Mamlejewa. Prolegomena [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2018
This article is an attempt to analyze the category of meeting between two main characters in The Other using a symbolic key. I try to explain the important role of such semiotic categories as threshold and mask in the process of becoming more aware about
Anna Katarzyna Przybysz
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Susceptibility of Contracting Diseases during the Traditional Male Circumcision (TMC) Rite of Males in Alice, South Africa (Eastern Cape): Implication to Social Work [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This paper, using an explorative and descriptive design facilitated by an interview schedule, explored the potential of male adolescents undergoing the rite of traditional male circumcision contracting diseases.
Aphiwe Mpateni   +1 more
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Rite of Passage

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics, 2022
“Rite of Passage” describes a court case raised by an android/artificial intelligence who wishes to apply for citizenship but can only do so if recognized as a human.
Hans Henrik Løyche
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Moibba’ Ritual: A Rite of Passage and Identity Formation for the Boano Indigenous Community

open access: yesSIGn Journal of Social Science, 2023
This research aims to understand the processes, symbols, and meanings embedded in the Moibba’ ritual for daughters of the Boano tribe. This research uses an ethnographic analysis.
Midun Sandi Nayon Maiyo   +4 more
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Embarking on a ‘(birth)rite of passage’: exploring the role of liminality and youth transitions in diaspora tourism motivation

open access: yesJournal of Heritage Tourism, 2023
Motivations to participate in diaspora tourism ‘birthright’ programs have widely encompassed themes of heritage exploration, including a desire to develop personalised attachments to people, places, and memories connected to ancestral heritage or a ...
Julia Kantek
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Study of the Yoruba Traditional Marriage as a Rite of Passage

open access: yesInternational journal of African society, cultures and traditions, 2022
This study observes marriage as a rite of passage and identifies the symbolic communicative elements deployed in the Yoruba traditional marriage processes to ease the transition of a bride from one status to another.

semanticscholar   +1 more source

Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage: The reproduction of the obstetric subject and its racialised (m)other

open access: yesAgenda, 2021
Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how the obstetric institution can still be considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- and necropolitics and patriarchal subjectivity.
Rodante van der Waal   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Editorial. Rites of passage [PDF]

open access: yesArdeth, 2020
“Change is avalanching upon our heads and most people are grotesquely unprepared to cope with it”, argued the futurist Alvin Toffler in his famous book Future Shock. Toffler wrote this in 1970, half a century ago. But how much more true today, when a political (Brexit), an ecological (climate change) and a psychological crisis – which is what the ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Reception of structuralism exemplified by research on rite-de-passage in Serbian ethnology and anthropology [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2006
Research on rite-de-passage marked Serbian ethnology and anthropology especially during the seventies, eighties and to some extent nineties of the 20th century.
Prodanović Ana
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