A Cross-Cultural Summary: Female Initiation Rites

HRAF Press • New Haven, Connecticut • Published In • Pages: ??•
By Textor, Robert B.

Abstract

Textor summarizes cross-cultural findings of female initiation rites pertaining to cultural, environmental, social, and psychological phenomena.

Note

Female Initiation Rites is a section of A Cross-Cultural Summary. Additionally, following each hypothesis are two sets of numbers: the first is the identification for female initiation rites and the second is the other variable identification.

Samples

Sample Used Coded Data Comment
Ethnographic Atlas (EA)Previously Coded

Hypotheses (6)

HypothesisSupported
Societies with full-time entrepreneurs will tend to separate females at menarche (380, 136).Marginally Supported
Societies with female initiation rites will tend to separate females at menarche (380, 382).Supported
Societies where mother-son sleeping arrangements last longer than one year will tend to have female initiation rites (382, 316).Supported
Societies where the strength of menstrual taboos is high will tend to have female initiation rites (382, 396).Supported
Societies outside of North America will tend to have painful female initiation rites (383. 8).Marginally Supported
Societies where the kin group is exclusively patrilineal will tend to have painful female initiation rites (383, 186).Supported
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