Legal Systems and Incest Taboos by John R. Commons

Author:John R. Commons [Commons, John R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Anthropology, General, Cultural & Social
ISBN: 9781351509015
Google: zx0uDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12T03:26:55+00:00

*American as well as other societies exacerbate the confusions and vulnerabilities of the second stage to the point of the classical “adolescent conflict.” This, however, is unusual when viewed cross culturally and it would also appear to be an exaggeration of the underlying biological processes.

*For this reason, the custom of the debut in the upper classes of some Western countries is not a true initiation ceremony, as some sociologists have tried to suggest (see, for example, Bossard and Boll 1948). This custom is usually restricted to loose socio-economic sub-groups within the society; there are no rules in the society at large which exclude a girl from adolescent or adult status if she does not go through the ceremony of the debut, and the decision to hold the debut rests with the girl’s family and with the girl herself.

†For this reason, the Jewish ceremony of the bar mitzvah, the individual confirmation rite which takes place traditionally on a boy’s thirteenth birthday and which admits him to the religious fellowship or sodality, is not a true rite de passage.

*This is often an extraordinarily important part of the initiation ceremonies, and I will discuss its key role in these rites.

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