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Folklorist 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 stages: birth, puberty, marriage,
parenthood, advancement to elderhood, and, finally, death. Van
Gennep's command of the ethnographic record enabled him to discern
crosscultural patterns in rituals of separation, transition, and
incorporation. With compelling precision, he elaborated the terms
that would both define twentieth-century ritual theory and become a
part of our everyday lexicon. This new edition of his work
demonstrates how we can still make use of its enduring critical
tools to understand our own social, religious, and political
worlds. Featuring an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning
anthropologist and historian David I. Kertzer, this edition reminds
readers just how startlingly insightful The Rites of Passage
remains a century after its initial publication.
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