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Rites of Passage: Flow of Gifts
Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 2011 This paper aims to explore how gifts are connected with the sanskars, rites of transition or rite of passage. I have discussed how gifts are connected culturally in the context of rites of transitions, in order to systematically search for the different ...
Man Bahadur Khattri
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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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Adolescents’ perceptions of an adventure-based programme
Perspectives in Education, 2010 A qualitative study was undertaken to explore the perceptions of youth regarding their wilderness rites of passage experience and its value for their lives.
Ronel Bosch, Marietjie Oswald
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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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Les bals de finissants et les initiations universitaires au regard des concepts d’Erving Goffman [PDF]
, 2004 Les bals de finissants et les initiations universitaires sont souvent associés à des rites de passage. Il est cependant possible de les analyser sous un autre angle, celui des interactions.
Harvengt, David
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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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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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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.
Barrett, Patrick +2 more
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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
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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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