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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... Traditional Cel- ebration , 127 ; Initiatory Wonder , 131 ; Initiatory Disenchantment , 136 ; He Emerged as One of Them , 138 ; Reinventing Initiation Rites , 142 ; African American Rites of Passage , 145 CHAPTER 3 Divining Mates ...
... Traditional Cel- ebration , 127 ; Initiatory Wonder , 131 ; Initiatory Disenchantment , 136 ; He Emerged as One of Them , 138 ; Reinventing Initiation Rites , 142 ; African American Rites of Passage , 145 CHAPTER 3 Divining Mates ...
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... traditional Christian or Jewish books of worship . Would I assist in constructing such a rite ? On another occasion a group called to ask if I knew of rites that might be adaptable for North American Buddhist children . There are , they ...
... traditional Christian or Jewish books of worship . Would I assist in constructing such a rite ? On another occasion a group called to ask if I knew of rites that might be adaptable for North American Buddhist children . There are , they ...
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... traditional ceremonies offered by mainstream religious institutions . Can you give me some ideas about what's done in other cultures or at least suggest some readings that would help ? " The professor's inclination is to deliver a ...
... traditional ceremonies offered by mainstream religious institutions . Can you give me some ideas about what's done in other cultures or at least suggest some readings that would help ? " The professor's inclination is to deliver a ...
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... traditional and invented , to facilitate or obstruct difficult passages in the course of a human life . Not every passage is a rite of passage . We undergo pas- sages , but we enact rites . Life passages are rough , fraught with ...
... traditional and invented , to facilitate or obstruct difficult passages in the course of a human life . Not every passage is a rite of passage . We undergo pas- sages , but we enact rites . Life passages are rough , fraught with ...
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... traditional and conventional , not created or invented . It is true that cre- ativity , and its partner , imagination , do come with some heavy baggage . These words can sound romantic and individualistic . To call people cre- ative or ...
... traditional and conventional , not created or invented . It is true that cre- ativity , and its partner , imagination , do come with some heavy baggage . These words can sound romantic and individualistic . To call people cre- ative or ...
Inhalt
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 |
Index | 369 |
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Seite 27 - The daily body ritual performed by everyone includes a mouth-rite. Despite the fact that these people are so punctilious about care of the mouth, this rite involves a practice which strikes the uninitiated stranger as revolting. It was reported to me that the ritual consists of inserting a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then moving the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures. In addition to the private mouth-rite, the people seek out a holy-mouthman...
Seite 223 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Seite 27 - The Nacirema have an almost pathological horror of and fascination with the mouth, the condition of which is believed to have a supernatural influence on all social relationships. Were it not for the rituals of the mouth, they believe that their teeth would fall out, their gums bleed, their jaws shrink, their friends desert them, and their lovers reject them.
Seite 256 - The word death is not pronounced in New York, in Paris, in London, because it burns the lips. The Mexican, in contrast, is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it; it is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.
Seite 26 - The focal point of the shrine is a box or chest which is built into the wall. In this chest are kept the many charms and magical potions without which no native believes he could live. These preparations are secured from a variety of specialized practitioners. The most powerful of these are the medicine men, whose assistance must be rewarded with substantial gifts. However, the medicine men do not provide the curative potions for their clients, but decide what the ingredients should be and then write...
Seite 95 - ... that had just throbbed through the sky. With all his weight Ozzie kneeled on the locked door; any instant he was certain that Rabbi Binder's shoulder would fling it open, splintering the wood into shrapnel and catapulting his body into the sky. But the door did not move and below him he heard only the rumble of feet, first loud then dim, like thunder rolling away. A question shot through his brain. "Can this be me?" For a thirteen-year-old who had just labeled his religious leader a bastard,...
Seite 118 - Then let us proceed, pale face, and unless some Chief interposes, you perish at the stake. Why do you tempt your fate? or is it your wish to become a Red Man?" The candidate was prompted to answer yes. The hunter warned: "Know, then, that Red Men are men without fear, and none but such can be adopted by our Tribe.
Seite 132 - The teacher reads the letters first forwards, then backwards, and finally in symmetrically paired combinations, and he encourages the boy to repeat each sequence aloud. The teacher smears honey over the letters on the tablet and tells the child to lick it off. Cakes on which biblical verses have been written are brought in. They must be baked by virgins from flour, honey, oil, and milk. Next come shelled hard-boiled eggs on which more verses have been inscribed. The teacher reads the words written...
Seite 118 - inner wicket" and motioned for the candidate to follow. They padded silently around the lodge room, avoiding a group of Indians who were "sleeping
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