This rite of passage is similar to those in many other societies. Rites of passage, as mentioned in Chapter 14, are described by anthropologists as rituals that change the status of an individual...

This rite of passage is similar to those in many other societies. Rites of passage, as mentioned in Chapter 14, are described by anthropologists as rituals that change the status of an individual within society. The late anthropologist Victor Turner divided rites of passage into three distinctive stages: an initial structured phase (the original status of the individual); a liminal phase, wherein the individual is in a highly ambiguous, anti structured status; and a final phase he called “communitas,” wherein the individual is incorporated back into society with a new status (1969).