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History of Rites of Passage
In the early 1900s, cultural anthropologist Arnold von Gennep (1909) was exploring how other cultures honored and marked initiatory rites. Noticing a commonality in the overall form, particularly the typical three phases of severance, threshold, and incorporation, Gennep created the now common place phase of rites of passage.
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