Deeply into the Bone : Re-Inventing Rites of

A general introduction to the topic of rites of passage from a cross-cultural perspective.

List of Figures

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction Rough Passages, Reinvented Rites

1

(14)

Celebrating New Life, Ritually Nurturing the Young

15

(72)

Pulling up My Skin for Laces

21

(8)

You Have a Compass within You

29

(7)

Children Are Not Born But Made

36

(9)

Male Mothering

45

(4)

Begreasing and Bespewing Poor Infants

49

(6)

Churching and Gossiping

55

(2)

Appropriate Craziness, Extravagant Praise

57

(2)

Cosmic Fetuses and Bundle Babies

59

(4)

Kneeling on the Earth

63

(8)

A Birth Well Attended

71

(3)

Nurturing Ritual Sensibilities

74

(2)

The Dove Still Travels with Me

76

(7)

Reinventing Birth Rites

83

(4)

Coming of Age, Joining Up

87

(64)

Initiation as a Global Problem

91

(3)

The Reality of My Own Body

94

(6)

Patterns of Initiation

100

(7)

Initiation around the World

107

(4)

Initiatory Fantasy

111

(6)

The Improved Order of Red Men

117

(4)

Betwixt and Between

121

(4)

Debt Payments, Whippings, and Washings

125

(2)

Bartering a Traditional Celebration

127

(4)

Initiatory Wonder

131

(5)

Initiatory Disenchantment

136

(2)

He Emerged as One of Them

138

(4)

Reinventing Initiation Rites

142

(3)

African American Rites of Passage

145

(6)

Divining Mates, Making Kin

151

(66)

Wedding Preparation, Wedding Aftermath

156

(3)

The Purity of an Angel, the Sweat of a Human

159

(4)

Reaching through the Veil

163

(6)

Like a Horse and Carriage?

169

(3)

The Most Splendid Couple in All of Japan

172

(5)

The Sacred Fire Was Our Witness

177

(9)

Married Already or Not Yet?

186

(5)

Old Enough to Be the Father of His Bride

191

(5)

Passing the Torch, Blessing the Bride

196

(2)

From Blessing Marriages to Making Them

198

(7)

Alternative Weddings

205

(5)

Reinventing Marriage Rites

210

(7)

Living with the Dead, Exiting Gracefully

217

(68)

Good Ways to Die

221

(6)

Dying Scenarios

227

(3)

It Took Two Funerals to Bury My Brother

230

(6)

A Coffin Lined with Paper

236

(4)

A Cloud of Earth for a Pillow

240

(3)

Living with the Dead

243

(8)

The Release of a Hungry Ghost

251

(3)

Dancing with the Dead

254

(4)

The American Way of Death

258

(3)

Dead, He Presides Over Us

261

(9)

Mortal Acts

270

(3)

Cyber Ritual and Death on the Web

273

(2)

Reinventing Death Rites

275

(10)

Passages, Troubled and Uncharted

285

(50)

The Spilling of Boys' Blood

289

(5)

Female Genital Mutilation

294

(5)

Ritual Criticism and Widow Burning

299

(3)

Satanic Ritual Abuse

302

(5)

Never ``Instead of,'' Always ``in Addition to''

307

(3)

Abortion Rites in Japan

310

(5)

Until Grief Leaves the Forefront of My Being

315

(5)

The Roller-Coaster of Joy and Woe

320

(3)

Cutting the Cord of Employment

323

(12)

CONCLUSION Beyond Passage

335

(12)

Crying in the Night

337

(3)

Boiling Energy

340

(4)

`Babette's Feast'

344

(3)

Notes

347

(12)

Sources Cited

359

(10)

Index

369

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Deeply into the Bone : Re-Inventing Rites of Passage

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