Body Modification and Contemporary American Rites of Passage INTRODUCTION Rites of Passage The term "Rite of Passage" describes any rite or ritual which marks or induces a change in an individuals social position. ... Because each rite of passage is highly individualized and each situation is different, there will not be complete correlation with each event that I perceive to be a rite of passage. ... BODY MODIFICATION AND COMMEMORATION The most obvious use of body modification in rites of passage is to mark the body with a permanent reminder of an important event or stage in an individual...

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I wanted to discover more about how one can provide help and comfort to sick and dying children and their families. ... When dealing with sick and dying children, the first question is always, "How much do I tell them?" ... In her nine-month study of terminally ill children, Anthropologist Myra Bluebond-Langner discovered that they knew and understood a great deal more about their disease and medications than what they were told: The children had a great deal of technical information about the drugs used in treatment - the purposes for which the drugs were given, their side effects, when a...

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How a complete neophyte can address such issues with any hope of coherence seems beyond the realm of possibility. ... In the public discourse this meant "coon- songs and shows that took the humiliation of the black race to a new level of cruelty, and the passage of laws (i.e. ... The author's early work often dealt with man's internal fights with his own conscience. ... The common denominator among these works is their exploration of a paradoxical connection between union and division; they question both when division is destructive and union desirable (as in the cases of the divid...

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Therefore suicide from one generation to another was no due to heredity but due to passage of this insanity. ... A cough, a dance motion or homicidal impulse is transferrable to another with no social bond or with only chance and temporary encounter. ... Durkheim says that if imitation or contagion was the cause of suicide, there would be central geographical points or countries where the suicide rates would be the highest and around them would be countries (in a concentric pattern) with high suicide rates and in the next circle would be countries with lower suicide rates. ... BOOK 2 - SOCIAL...

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The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one. 1 In Africa, it is not rare for members of the lower caste to refuse to enter into conjugal relations with those of the higher caste, even though the reverse would seem more normal. ... The gér comprise the nobles and all freemen with no manual profes...

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