Ethnology, Volume 37University of Pittsburgh, 1998 - Anthropology |
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... initiates kill birds ; moreover , decorative birds , not birds of character with adult personality . The former index the liminality of initiates , in contrast to the lion - mane and ostrich - feather headdresses worn by warriors . But ...
... initiates kill birds ; moreover , decorative birds , not birds of character with adult personality . The former index the liminality of initiates , in contrast to the lion - mane and ostrich - feather headdresses worn by warriors . But ...
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... initiates tell us about the Maasai ornithorium ( the complex of notions about and practices concerning the avian world ) , and how does the ornithorium illuminate forms of Maasai identity and self in relation to a circumcision process ...
... initiates tell us about the Maasai ornithorium ( the complex of notions about and practices concerning the avian world ) , and how does the ornithorium illuminate forms of Maasai identity and self in relation to a circumcision process ...
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... INITIATES KILL BIRDS Decorative birds index the liminal status ( as social newborns , vulnerable and weak ) of the initiates who kill them . In the symbolism of Maasai ritual , initiates are explicitly seen to die in circumcision , only ...
... INITIATES KILL BIRDS Decorative birds index the liminal status ( as social newborns , vulnerable and weak ) of the initiates who kill them . In the symbolism of Maasai ritual , initiates are explicitly seen to die in circumcision , only ...
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