Deeply into the Bone: Re-Inventing Rites of PassageUniversity of California Press, 29.06.2000 - 393 Seiten Over the past two decades, North Americans have become increasingly interested in understanding and reclaiming the rites that mark significant life passages. In the absence of meaningful rites of passage, we speed through the dangerous intersections of life and often come to regret missing an opportunity to contemplate a child's birth, mark the arrival of maturity, or meditate on the loss of a loved one. Providing a highly personal, thoroughly informed, and cross-cultural perspective on rites of passage for general readers, this book illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions. The work of a major scholar who has spent years writing and teaching about ritual, Deeply into the Bone instigates a conversation in which readers can fruitfully reflect on their own experiences of passage. Covering the significant life events of birth, initiation, marriage, and death, chapters include first-person stories told by individuals who have undergone rites of passage, accounts of practices from around the world, brief histories of selected ritual traditions, and critical reflections probing popular assumptions about ritual. The book also explores innovative rites for other important events such as beginning school, same-sex commitment ceremonies, abortion, serious illness, divorce, and retirement. Taking us confidently into the abyss separating the spiritual from the social scientific, the personal from the scholarly, and the narrative from the analytical, Grimes synthesizes an impressive amount of information to help us find more insightful ways of comprehending life's great transitions. As we face our increasingly complex society, Deeply into the Bone will help us reclaim the power of rites and understand their effect on our lives. |
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Pulling up My Skin for Laces | 21 |
You Have a Compass within You | 29 |
Children Are Not Born but Made | 36 |
Male Mothering | 45 |
Married Already or Not Yet? | 186 |
Old Enough to Be the Father of His Bride | 191 |
Passing the Torch Blessing the Bride | 196 |
From Blessing Marriages to Making Them | 198 |
Alternative Weddings | 205 |
Reinventing Marriage Rites | 210 |
Living with the Dead Exiting Gracefully | 217 |
Good Ways to Die | 221 |
Begreasing and Bespewing Poor Infants | 49 |
Churching and Gossiping | 55 |
Appropriate Craziness Extravagant Praise | 57 |
Cosmic Fetuses and Bundle Babies | 59 |
Kneeling on the Earth | 63 |
A Birth Well Attended | 71 |
Nurturing Ritual Sensibilities | 74 |
The Dove Still Travels with Me | 76 |
Reinventing Birth Rites | 83 |
Coming of Age Joining Up | 87 |
Initiation as a Global Problem | 91 |
The Reality of My Own Body | 94 |
Patterns of Initiation | 100 |
Initiation around the World | 107 |
Initiatory Fantasy | 111 |
The Improved Order of Red Men | 117 |
Betwixt and Between | 121 |
Debt Payments Whippings and Washings | 125 |
Bartering a Traditional Celebration | 127 |
Initiatory Wonder | 131 |
Initiatory Disenchantment | 136 |
He Emerged as One of Them | 138 |
African American Rites of Passage | 145 |
Divining Mates Making Kin | 151 |
Wedding Preparation Wedding Aftermath | 156 |
The Purity of an Angel the Sweat of a Human | 159 |
Reaching through the Veil | 163 |
Like a Horse and Carriage? | 169 |
The Most Splendid Couple in All of Japan | 172 |
The Sacred Fire Was Our Witness | 177 |
Dying Scenarios | 227 |
It Took Two Funerals to Bury My Brother | 230 |
A Coffin Lined with Paper | 236 |
A Cloud of Earth for a Pillow | 240 |
Living with the Dead | 243 |
The Release of a Hungry Ghost | 251 |
Dancing with the Dead | 254 |
The American Way of Death | 258 |
Dead He Presides Over Us | 261 |
Mortal Acts | 270 |
Cyher Ritual and Death on the Web | 273 |
Reinventing Death Rites | 275 |
Passages Troubled and Uncharted | 285 |
The Spilling of Boys Blood | 289 |
Female Genital Mutilation | 294 |
Ritual Criticism and Widow Burning | 299 |
Satanic Ritual Abuse | 302 |
Never Instead of Always in Addition to | 307 |
Ahortion Rites in Japan | 310 |
Until Grief Leaves the Forefront of My Being | 315 |
The RollerCoaster of Joy and Woe | 320 |
Cutting the Cord of Employment | 323 |
Beyond Passage | 335 |
Crying in the Night | 337 |
Boiling Energy | 340 |
Bahettes Feast | 344 |
Notes | 347 |
Sources Cited | 359 |
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