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Few books in anthropology have had as much influence as Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage, originally published in France in 1909. Yet, it was only with the publication of the English- language edition of the book in 1960 that this influence began to be fully felt. Even now, well over half a century since the translation was published ...
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A CLASSIC WORK OF ANTHROPOLOGY—OVER SEVENTY THOUSAND COPIES SOLDWith a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winner David I. Kertzer Arnold van Gennep’s masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark book explores ...
Rites of Passage (1980) is an account of a six-month voyage to Australia in the early 19th century by an assorted group of British migrants on a converted man-of-war. It is in the form of a journal written by Edmund Talbot, a young aristocrat. His influential godfather has arranged for him to be employed with the Governor of New South Wales ...
Jun 22, 2023 · Reading Rites of Passage as a text from the first decade of the twentieth century presents us with a world that is the polar opposite of that historians’ idyll. This radical divergence in approach is captured in the book's opening sentence: ‘Each larger society contains within it several distinctly separate social groupings.
The ritual marks the passage from child to adult, each subgroup having its customs and expectations. 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.
May 24, 2019 · Arnold van Gennep’s masterwork, The Rites of Passage, has been a staple of anthropological education for more than a century. First published in French in 1909, and translated into English by the University of Chicago Press in 1960, this landmark book explores how the life of an individual in any society can be understood as a succession of ...
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Written by William Golding The first book of William Golding’s Sea Trilogy is a haunting account of an epic sea journey, which profoundly affects all those who set sail on it. In the early 1800s, Edmund Talbot, a young and rather priggish Englishman, takes passage on a boat heading for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government.
