0 an official ceremony or informal activity that marks an important stage or occasion in a person's life, especially becoming an adult
In the opening lines a double rite of passage is suggested.
It was almost a rite of passage which made migration to the new state a final and irrevocable act.
But we should do this with self-awareness and recognize it as a rite of passage.
Moreover, it is not accurate to speak of ' food as a rite of passage' (p. 81) : rather, food may be employed in such rites.
This crime was as much a rite of passage into manhood as a profit-motivated misdemeanour.
The other phenomenon is the absence of any rite of passage from childhood to adult life.
Speaking becomes both a way to engage in active self-transformation and a rite of passage where one moves from being object to being subject.
For elderly people, however, because the modern ' good ' death is thought to belong to old age, this final rite of passage becomes a scheduled rather than a nonscheduled one.
