Male Initiation

Associated Documents (3)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Young, Frank W.Initiation ceremonies: a cross-cultural study of status dramatization
Brown, Judith K.A cross-cultural study of female initiation rites
Ember, Carol R.Explaining male initiation ceremonies: new cross-cultural tests and a catalytic model

Associated Hypotheses (4)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Ember, Carol R.Exclusive mother-infant sleeping and a long postpartum sex taboo are positively associated with male initiation.
Young, Frank W."Male solidarity dissolves the relationship between the two childhood factors [exclusive mother-son sleeping arrangement and patrilocal residence] and male initiation" (77)
Young, Frank W."[There is] an association with dramatization (of male sex role at adolescence] in the case of adolescent shift of sleeping quarters and boyhood ceremonies, but no such association for childhood festivities" (82)
Brown, Judith K.Societies with male initiation rites involving both genital operation and isolation will be associated with painful initiation rites for females

Associated OCMs

  1. puberty and initiation