Humanities Homework Help

I’m working on a anthropology multi-part question and need a sample draft to help me learn.

QUESTION 1

Many of the “important” events in society are rites of passage: getting a first apartment, graduating, marriage, becoming a parent… even death is a rite of passage.

All of these rites of passage change identity, and incorporate the 3 phases of a rite of passage. Think about your own life, or that of people you know. Can you think of a rite of passage you are familiar with, or even participated in? Consider those rites of passage, and break one that you are familiar with into the 3 phases.

Use this format:

Name of the Rite of Passage, then:

1. Separation: describe this phase
2. Liminal: describe this phase
3. Re-Integration/Incorporation: describe this phase, and state the new identity of the focal person.

QUESTION 2

1. Please provide a rite of passage, and then tell me the cost involved in the transformation of identity that results.
2. Why is sacrifice part of ritual?