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Deeply into the bone : re-inventing rites of passage

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
eBook, English, ©2000
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2000
1 online resource (ix, 384 pages) : illustrations
9780520929630, 9780585391601, 9780520215337, 9781597345774, 0520929632, 0585391602, 0520215338, 1597345776
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List of Figures; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Rough Passages, Reinvented Rites; CHAPTER 1 Celebrating New Life, Ritually Nurturing the Young; CHAPTER 2 Coming of Age, Joining Up; CHAPTER 3 Divining Mates, Making Kin; CHAPTER 4 Living with the Dead, Exiting Gracefully; CHAPTER 5 Passages, Troubled and Uncharted; CONCLUSION Beyond Passage; Notes; Sources Cited; Index
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