Initiation Ritual is a ritual practice that formally marks an individual's entry into a new social status, role, or membership within a community through prescribed symbolic actions that distinguish it from other rites of passage by focusing specifically on the threshold of acceptance.
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Chisungu: A Girls' Initiation Ceremony Among the Bemba of Zambia
Lucy Mair, Audrey I. Richards · RAIN · 1982 · 149 citations
Rites of Passage and Group Bonding in he Canadian Airborne
Donna Winslow · Armed Forces & Society · 1999 · 105 citations
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University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, United States
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4 publications
146 citations
University of Arizona
Tucson, United States
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2 publications
90 citations
Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Campina Grande, Brazil
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1 publications
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Smith College
Northampton, United States
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1 publications
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San Jose State University
San Jose, United States
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1 publications
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University of South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
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Universidade Estadual da Paraíba
Campina Grande, Brazil
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North Carolina State University
Raleigh, United States
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- American Anthropologist
4 publications · 181 citations
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- The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
4 publications · 99 citations
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- Man
3 publications · 145 citations
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- Journal of American Folklore
JAF · 3 publications · 73 citations
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- American Ethnologist
AE · 2 publications · 100 citations
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