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Lecture 9
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Rites of passage
● Mark transition from one status to another and the social change with it
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​Separation
● The individual is an outsider, detached from the group
○ Stripped from old status
○ The construction of a small hut of leaves the “Kaffu” (to die) -- the hut is the place
of death
○ Here that the chief elect dies from commoner state and will emerge as a
paramount chief
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The head man reviles, chastises, vilifies the
chief elect
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■ A destruction of the chief’s previous state and status
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Greeted with
prayer by villagers for all previous chiefs
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Analysis
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● Three stages/places: Separation, Liminality & Reaggregation
○ Threshold must be passed in → out (liminal state)
○ Separated from previous status in social group and experience a marginal period
in which they are preparing for a reborn with new status within the group
○ New rights, powers & obligation
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Manifestations of Communitas
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​Powers of the weak
● Transform weakness into power
○ Ex: MLK, Ghandi, Christ, etc
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​Millenarian religious movements
● “End of the world/apocalypse”
○ About the experience of the communal, the humbling
○ They shed their previous states when joined
■ Ex: Jonestown, Heaven’s Gate (especially 19th century)
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​Attributes of liminal entities
● Preliminal and postliminal characteristics
○ Bootcamp/military = liminal period (grinding down/leveling)
■ Physical transformation
■ Possess nothing -- no status
○ Period when rich rub elbows of the poor
■ Hard physical labor
○ Liminality period is often sexless (no gender)

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■ Silent & submissive
Blank slate -- “tabula rasa”
Twilight zone, being a “tween”, burning man/festivals
Halloween (role reversal)
■ Kids lead

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