Anthropology 3332F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Prenatal Vitamins, Miscegenation, Sperm Donation

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 3332F/G
• Professor: Andrew Walsh

Document Summary

Classic essay on reports of funerary practices around the world. Rites of passage: rituals associated with the transition of individuals from one social status to another. Every person"s life is a series of passages from one age to another. Passing from one well de ned position to another. Rites of separation -> rites of transition (liminal rites) -> rites of incorporation. Communitas is not a place but a way of relating that develops among people experiencing liminal rites together. They had a sense of what would happen in samoa. Adolescence as a liminal period meaning in between or a threshold period. Its a transition period between childhood and adulthood. From being someone else"s responsibility to having responsibilities of one"s own. Unexpected consequences in dalian under one-child policy. The baining have remained a distinctive social and cultural identity for over a century in the face of violent assimilation. They do so by reproducing the same mundane activities every day.