Ethnology, Volume 37University of Pittsburgh, 1998 - Anthropology |
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Page 228
After the shaving ceremony that marks the end of the initiation process , the rack
of birds is deposited safely behind the initiate ... What does this marvelous
association of birds and initiates tell us about the Maasai ornithorium ( the
complex of ...
After the shaving ceremony that marks the end of the initiation process , the rack
of birds is deposited safely behind the initiate ... What does this marvelous
association of birds and initiates tell us about the Maasai ornithorium ( the
complex of ...
Page 232
Like infants , initiates are not allowed to feed themselves and are protected from
harm or strife . Pollution is attached to them , as physical and moral persons ,
much as holy grit clings during postparturition to new mothers and newborns .
Like infants , initiates are not allowed to feed themselves and are protected from
harm or strife . Pollution is attached to them , as physical and moral persons ,
much as holy grit clings during postparturition to new mothers and newborns .
Page 234
There are two forms of nomenclature for initiates : in the male form , O - sipolioi ( I
- sipolio , pl . ) ... from a - ibart , to watch over or to be expecting ( keibartisho ) ,
which confirms the association between the processes of initiation and parturition
...
There are two forms of nomenclature for initiates : in the male form , O - sipolioi ( I
- sipolio , pl . ) ... from a - ibart , to watch over or to be expecting ( keibartisho ) ,
which confirms the association between the processes of initiation and parturition
...
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Contents
Volume XXXVII Number | 4 |
A New Time and Place for Bolivian Popular Politics | 99 |
Performing National Culture in a Bolivian Migrant Community | 117 |
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