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Describes the rites of birth, puberty, marriage, and death in five societies: hunter-gatherers of Africa; Muslim Hausa; Chinese in Taiwan; Polynesian Tikopia; and the Tlingit Indians of Alaska.

subjects: Ethnology,  Initiation rites,  Rites and ceremonies,  Initiations (in religion, folk-lore, etc.),  Religious aspects,  Cultural Anthropology,  Culture,  Religion,  Initiations (into trades, societies, etc.)