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rite of passage
(redirected from Initiation rite)

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rite of passage (rt)
n.
A ritual or ceremony signifying an event in a person's life indicative of a transition from one stage to another, as from adolescence to adulthood.
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Although there are many cultural similarities to my Sudanese experience as a Youth growing up in this kind of culture, The author picked up the Maasai Youth transition; and this analysis focus mainly and primarily on their cultural practices of circumcision; both sexes as an initiation rite of passage into an adulthood.
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