Arnold van gennep biography
Arnold van gennep biography
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Rite of passage
Ritual reflecting change of social status
For other uses, see Rite of passage (disambiguation).
A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another.
It involves a significant change of status in society. In cultural anthropology the term is the Anglicisation of rite de passage, a French term innovated by the ethnographerArnold van Gennep in his work Les rites de passage, The Rites of Passage.[1] The term is now fully adopted into anthropology as well as into the literature and popular cultures of many modern languages.
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Original conception
In English, Van Gennep's first sentence of his first chapter begins:[2]
"Each larger society contains within it several distinctly separate groupings.
... In addition, all these groups break down into still smaller societies in subgroups."
The population of a society belongs to multiple groups, some more important to t