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Editorial. Rites of passage [PDF]
Ardeth, 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 ...
Jörg H. Gleiter
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Images From a Jointly-Arousing Collective Ritual Reveal Affective Polarization [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 Collective rituals are biologically ancient and culturally pervasive, yet few studies have quantified effects on participants. We assessed two plausible models from qualitative anthropology: ritual empathy predicts affective convergence among all ritual ...
Joseph A. Bulbulia +6 more
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The rite of passage of becoming a humanitarian health worker: experiences of retention in Sweden. [PDF]
Glob Health Action, 2018 Background: Low retention of humanitarian workers poses constraints on humanitarian organisations’ capacity to respond effectively to disasters. Research has focused on reasons for humanitarian workers leaving the sector, but little is known about the ...
Albuquerque S, Eriksson A, Alvesson HM.
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Education fever in South Korea: Rite of passage versus children’s rights
International Journal of Population StudiesFrom enrolment in elementary school until acceptance at university, South Korean children pursue a uniform, arduous goal assigned to them by their mothers, community, and popular culture.
Hwayoung Kim, Vladimír Hlásny
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A 'Rite of Passage' Youth Festival in South Africa
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2015 Festival tourism studies are dominated by works relating to North America, Europe and Australia. This paper examines an aspect of festival tourism in the setting of the global South.
Jayne M. Rogerson, Devin Harmer
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Reception of structuralism exemplified by research on rite-de-passage in Serbian ethnology and anthropology [PDF]
Glasnik 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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Ubuntu and mourning practices in the Tsonga culture: Rite of passage
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023 The article focusses on ubuntu and mourning rituals practised in the Tsonga culture. Tsonga cultures and rituals have been proclaimed as being different from province to province with a few similarities.
Hundzukani P. Khosa-Nkatini
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Elementy rytuału przejścia w „Innym” Jurija Mamlejewa. Prolegomena [PDF]
Studia 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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The golden fleece as rite of passage [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2013 Borislav Pekić's novel 'The Golden Fleece' has been so far - since its complex poetics allowed it - interpreted in many ways. This is the first time that his seven volume novel is analyzed as a rite of passage, based on the works of the ethnologist ...
Lazić Nebojša J.
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European politics of survivance: Europeanization as a rite of passage [PDF]
Družboslovne Razprave, 2013 This paper attempts to examine Europeanization as a politics that inaugurates an imagined common sociality among imagined Europeans. It is argued that Europeanization may be viewed as a rite of passage that comes out of a social drama staged for the ...
Slaviša Raković
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