Festivals & Ritual
Coming of age: the rituals that make an adult
Initiation ceremonies share a structure that a Belgian anthropologist described a century ago, and the structure turns out to hold across an enormous range of societies.
Topic
anthropology
Every Kohopoho article tagged anthropology — 2 pieces across 1 section.
Festivals & Ritual
Carnival: the season when the rules are formally suspended
Inversion festivals — where servants command, fools are crowned and authority is mocked — appear across many societies, and the arguments about what they are for have run for a century.