Deeply into the Bone Re-Inventing Rites of Passage

Name: Deeply into the Bone Re-Inventing Rites of Passage
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ISBN: 9780520236752

ISBN-10: 0520236750

ISBN-13: 9780520236752

Edition: 2000

Authors: Ronald L. Grimes

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Over the past two decades, North Americans have become increasingly interested in understanding and reclaiming the rites that mark significant life passages. In the absence of meaningful rites of passage, we speed through the dangerous intersections of life and often come to regret missing an opportunity to contemplate a child's birth, mark the arrival of maturity, or meditate on the loss of a loved one. Providing a highly personal, thoroughly informed, and cross-cultural perspective on rites of passage for general readers, this book illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions. The work of a major scholar who has spent years writing and teaching about…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 393
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Rough Passages, Reinvented Rites



Celebrating New Life, Ritually Nurturing the Young



Coming of Age, Joining Up



Divining Mates, Making Kin



Living with the Dead, Exiting Gracefully



Passages, Troubled and Uncharted Conclusion: Beyond Passage


Notes


Sources Cited


Index