ANT 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Incest Taboo, Songhay Languages, Gennep
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Major work was the rites of passage, in which he systematically compared those ceremonies that celebrate an individual"s transition from one status to another within a given society. He found a triparetite sequence in ritual observance: separation, transition, and incorporation. This approach acknowledges that children experience different kinds of childhood in different societies and questions whether childhood should be seen as a cultural universal. Most widely spoken of the songhay languages: dowry: a practice in which the wife"s kin is expected to give the woman"s inheritance to, homelessness: condition of people without a permanent dwelling. Most often unable to acquire and maintain regular, safe, secure and adequate housing. Being characterized by an absence or attenuation of the affiliative bonds that link settled people to an interconnected system of social structure. Near the surface were loners, at the closest edges of boundaries between upper and lower world.
