ANTH 195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Unilineality, Kinship, Gennep
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Who an appropriate sexual partner is (not family members or non-humans) The age at which sexual response is believed to begin. Ways in which people make themselves atracive. The importance of sexual acivity in human life. An individual"s transiion from childhood to adulthood (sweet 16, geing driver"s license, marriage, turning 21, sex talk , graduaion, etc. ) Paricular type of ritual: rites of passage van gennep, a way of publicly and ceremonially acknowledging a change of social roles. Separaion-separaion of person(s) from others and symbolizes the detachment of the individual(s) from his/her/their earlier stage of being/status. Transiion- betwixt and between a period between the earlier state and the new one. Re-incorporaion-person(s) reintegrated into their social life (*most tenuous part of the ritual, can"t transiion into adulthood) Iniiaion rites-focus on the detachment of the iniiate from links to childhood and/or domesic realms (gebusi-males go through this but not females).
