- PII
- S0869-54150000392-4-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S50000392-4-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 1
- Pages
- 91-101
- Abstract
- The article addresses controversial questions pertaining to the classification of rites of passage and the taxonomical grounds for separating out the initiation rites; this, on the one hand, distinguishes the age initiations among the multiplicity of life cycle rituals; on the other, makes it possible to reclassify to the same category a variety of different phenomena such as joining a sect, lodge, or fraternity, ordaining a king or knight to an order, as well as baptism, confirmation, and age initiations. The author discusses an array of aspects of initiations: sacrament and access to esoteric knowledge; mechanisms of identification with a new social role; death symbolism; and pain in initiations and various approaches to its interpretation.
- Keywords
- initiation, rites of passage, puberty rites, socialization, anthropology/ethnography of childhood, segregation, closed communities
- Date of publication
- 28.10.2025
- Year of publication
- 2025
- Number of purchasers
- 1
- Views
- 783
RAS History & PhilologyЭтнографическое обозрение Ethno review
- ISSN (Print) 0869-5415
- ISSN (Online) 3034-6274
Primitive Age Initiations in the Circle of “Eternal” Questions
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