Rites of passage

By Jacqueline Dineen

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Rites and ceremonies, Manners and customs, Ritual

Description: Customs: Birth - Initiation - Marriage - Death - African - Papua New Guinea - Masai - Aborigines - Japan - India - Jewish - American Indians - Chinese - Buddhist - Hindu - Freemasons - South America - Coronation - Evil eye - Christian weddings - France - Arranged marriages - Dowries - Surma women of Ethiopia - Mourning ; Funeral customs - Etiquette - Baptism - Adoption - Starting school - Graduation - Bar Mitzvah - Secret Societies - Freemasons - Honours - Coronation - Weddings - What to wear - Wedding feast - Dowry - Grief - Afterlife - Mourning clothes - Funerals in war time - Jazz funeral - Remembering the dead - Marking the grave.