A Fertility rite (n.) makes sense once you see that a harvest needs peace among farmers as much as it needs rain and sun — and men are even more capricious than weather.
Initiation (n.) into society has no more objective value than Don Quixote's dubbing by a country innkeeper.
Initiation (n.) are society's help in the task facing every young person: detaching oneself from the family.
An Initiation (n.) into manhood is so old it has become an instinctive mechanism, repeating itself without compulsion — in German student baptisms and the wilder rites of American fraternities.
Initiation (n.) rites (n.) are primitive psychotherapy for life's transitions; when the white man makes them lapse, the tribe loses its soul and disintegrates.
A Rite of affliction (n.) is a rite performed to overcome hidden intentions as divination had previously revealed to be fracturing the social body.
A Rite of institution (n.) is the public act that makes a title feel like nature.
A Rite of institution (n.) is a ceremony that promotes someone and demotes everyone else.
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