Modern Rites of Passage

According to many scholars like Mircae Eliade, humans can be described as religious and ritual creatures. The emergence of world rituals is one of the universal aspects of mankind, beyond all political, social, cultural and geographical differences. There are various forms in the ceremony itself, but one of the most common aspects is the "passing formula". In this article we examine the passage of rituals defined by anthropologist Victor Turner through two examples of modern Canadian ceremonies, through high school graduation and undergraduate professional completion.

Cultural possession is not strange for contemporary channel ritual community. It can even say that it can not be separated from the core of our movement. Many of the specific rituals used in modern rituals come directly from indigenous culture. However, in addition to these specific borrowings, the idea of ​​"going through the ritual" comes from an anthropological tradition, and its colony was previously out of place. Arnold Van Gennep's book "Les Rites de Passage" introduces this term and is part of a large anthropological project to study cultures around the world to identify common themes. This project is closely related to colonialism. Both Europeans and Americans believe that colonialism is good or bad and European troops and immigrants colonize a wide area of ​​the Earth so he or she is such a diverse You can master the concept and practice of world culture.

Passing through rituals is a ritual that happens when a person leaves a group and enters another group. It involves major changes in social status. In Cultural Anthropology, this term is "ceremonial Britishization" and was invented in his book "Transit Ceremony" by French nationality Arnold Van Genepp. It is a term. This term is now fully adopted by anthropology, literature and popular culture of many contemporary languages. The population of society belongs to several groups, and some groups are more important than the other groups. Van Gennep uses this metaphor like "a house divided into a room and a corridor". When a person leaves the group and enters another group, a paragraph appears that he changed his room in that metaphor.

Every day, people go into adult rituals, and it is common to start school, new work, marriage, confirmation or contact. Two completely different cultures have completely different ceremonies and rituals. Compared with the country's main province and its Catholic culture, Apache will have an incredibly unique ritual. The best way to check for differences is to compare two different cultures. Each ceremony is held in a sacred place. One thing that is rich in every culture is whether it is birth, adult, Qu, or graduation, through rituals. Each part is an event that means a change in human life