| 单词 |
rite de passage |
| 释义 |
‖ rite de passage Anthrop.|rit də pasaʒ| Pl. rites de passage. [Fr., lit. ‘rite of passage’, a term coined by Arnold van Gennep: see quot. 1909.] Any of the rites of separation, transition, and incorporation that mark an individual's social existence from birth to death as he passes from one stage of life to another; ritual that marks the end of one phase and the start of another. Cf. rite 1 e.
[1909A. van Gennep (title) Les rites de passage.] 1911Man XI. 30 Should we be right in including many of the cases of rites de passage in a general category of rites de première fois? 1934R. Benedict Patterns of Culture ii. 25 In order to understand puberty institutions, we do not most need analyses of the necessary nature of rites de passage. 1949G. Bateson in M. Fortes Social Structure 45 A poor man was about to undergo one of the important and expensive rites de passage which are necessary for persons as they approach the top of the Council hierarchy. 1957M. Banton W. Afr. City xi. 210 Both native and Aku rites de passage appear to have been influenced by Creole practices. 1964W. McCord in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. xxv. 435 Most..practiced traditional rites de passage. 1972M. Argyle Social Psychol. of Work iv. 67 The transition to a new job involves some degree of re-socialization, and the shift is sometimes assisted by a public ceremony..known to sociologists as a rite de passage. 1977Times 22 Mar. 12/2 The [Newfoundland] seal hunt is..a necessary rite de passage for all young men. |

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