Puberty And Initiation
Scope Note
Ideas, beliefs, and practices associated with first emissio seminis and first menstruation; rites of passage at or near puberty; prevalence of special initiation rites for each gender; ceremonial sponsors; function and purpose of ceremonial; mystery and seclusion; taboos; ordeals and tests; teaching secret lore; special instruction in sex life; ideas of death and rebirth; etc.
- Broader Term
- 880 Adolescence, Adulthood, And Old Age
- Related Terms
- 145 Ontogenetic Data
- 304 Body Alterations
- 5311 Visual Arts
- 532 Representative Art
- 534 Musical Instruments
- 561 Age Stratification
- 575 Sodalities
- 582 Regulation Of Marriage
- 608 Artificial Kin Relationships
- 775 Eschatology
- 784 Avoidance And Taboo
- 795 Religious Denominations
- 796 Organized Ceremonial
- 841 Menstruation
- 864 Sex Training
- Use Fors
- Adolescent initiations
- Ceremonies (initiation)
- Circumcision (rites during puberty)
- Emissio seminis (sign of puberty)
- Female initiation rites
- Female rites of passage
- Initiation (puberty)
- Initiations (adolescent)
- Ordeals (puberty)
- Puberty rites
- Rites (puberty)
- Rites of passage (puberty)
- Torture (in puberty and initiation)
- Identifier
- 881
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