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Dawno, dawno temu na przedmieściach. Baśniowość w filmie Edward Nożycoręki Tima Burtona [PDF]

open access: yesImages, 2015
Once Upon a Time in the Suburbs. The Use of Fairy Tales in Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands   In the article, Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands is analyzed.
Adrianna Fiłonowicz
doaj   +3 more sources

Mytho-Ritual Dramaturgy: Death as Rite of Passage in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman [PDF]

open access: diamondJournal of Literature and Art Studies, 2019
The present study aims at investigating the perspective through which the Yoruba of Nigerian view death as a rite of passage using Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman. It examines the customs and traditions of the Yoruba as they relate to deaths,
Doreen Mekunda
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Exploring Consumer Experiences as Rites of Passage [PDF]

open access: green, 2016
Conceptualising consumer experience as a rite of passage holds the potential for designing products entailing stronger attachment. We integrate theoretical perspectives from three disparate research areas: sociological theories of rituals, models of ...
Alina Coman, Corina Sas
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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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Predynastic Egyptian rock art as evidence for early elites’ rite of passage

open access: yesAfrique Archéologie Arts, 2016
People express in ritual what moves them most, and their ritual behaviour reveals what moves the group. Rites of passage accompany almost every change of place, state, social position and age (Van Gennep 1909). In potentially identifying rites of passage
Francis David Lankester
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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

Then Zipporah took a Flint … Circumcision as a Rite of Passage in Exod 4,24-26

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, 2023
This article about Exod 4,24-26 argues that God is willing to kill Moses since he had not circumcised his son. The ritual described in the textual unit is an example of circumcision as a life cycle ritual at the threshold of adulthood.
B. Becking
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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

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