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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Rites of Passage

by Arnold van Gennep

Van Gennep's classic comparative study showed that ceremonies of birth, initiation, marriage and death share a threefold pattern of separation, transition and incorporation. His idea of the dangerous transitional phase remains central to the study of life-cycle customs.

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