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rite of passage
- ▪ a ceremony or event marking an important stage in someone's life, especially birth, the transition from childhood to adulthood, marriage, and death
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Rite of passage
Ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another
A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change of status in society. In cultural anthropology the term is the Anglicisation of rite de passage, a French term innovated by the ethnographer Arnold van Gennep in his work Les rites de passage, The Rites of Passage. The term is now fully adopte... Wikipedia
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