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William Golding's Rites of Passage. A Case of Transtextuality
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 1994 More or less consciously, all authors rewrite the work of their predecessors, since it is impossible to escape the influence of previous writings. Golding's Rites of Passage uses and abuses the conventions of earlier works very overtly, flaunting its
Marita Nadal Blasco
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The influence of cultural practices on the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Zambia
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011 Culture plays a significant role in people’s lives in Zambia and in Africa as a whole. Consequently, there is a need to take Zambian or African culture seriously in order to look at the salient elements of cultural practices in rites of passage that ...
Nolipher Moyo, Julian C. Müller
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Social inclusion through ageing-in-place with care? [PDF]
, 2012 The onset of ill-health and frailty in later life, within the context of the policy of ageing-in-place, is increasingly being responded to through the provision of home care.
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Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 2018 Resumo Este artigo propõe um exame da adolescência a partir de um debate entre a psicanálise e a etnologia. Considerando a variabilidade dessa passagem em diferentes sociedades, apresentamos alguns recortes extraídos de estudos etnológicos a fim de ...
Daniela Teixeira Dutra Viola +1 more
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Passage from Youth to Adulthood in Japan
Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2021 Coming of age, as one of the major transitions in the human life cycle, marks the threshold between childhood and adulthood. This transition involves the physical and psychological, as well as the social maturity of the individual.
Melinda Papp
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Forced Migration and Muslim Rituals: An Area of Cultural Psychology?
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1993 The psychological foundation of rites de passage have long been debated within the history of religion and related areas. The significance of such rites in facilitating emotional readjustment to a new life situation have been particularly stressed ...
Nora Ahlberg
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Things of the ground: Children's medicine, motherhood and memory in the Cameroon grassfields [PDF]
, 2011 Copyright @ 2011 Cambridge University PressSoon after birth, infants in the Cameroon Grassfields chiefdom of Oku are submitted by their parents to rites known generically as ‘children's medicine’ (k∂fu ∂bwan). Ostensibly performed to protect infants from
Argenti +34 more
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Birth Rituals and Associated Taboos among the Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh
Dera Natung Government College Research Journal, 2017 Rites of passage are rituals or ceremonies signifying an event in a person’s life, indicative of a transition from one stage to another, as from adolescence to adulthood.
Landi Pussang Monia
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Tra Scilla e Cariddi: diventare adulti in un reparto di medicina
EtnoAntropologia, 2017 In the article I present some anthropological reflections, with reference to ethnographic material collected on the field, the pediatric ward for the treatment of type 1 diabetes in a Neapolitan university hospital, about the transition rite of diabetic
Eugenio Zito
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Les rituels : des espaces de marge pour construire sa place
Recherches en Éducation, 2015 The present article shows how ritual practices can be considered as secured spaces where individuals can experiment new possibilities. A synthesis of different rituals is first presented, demonstrating how they commonly allow one to connect oneself (to ...
Françoise Hatchuel
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