Deeply into the Bone : Re-Inventing Rites of Passage

by Grimes, Ronald L.

• ISBN13: 9780520236752
• ISBN10: 0520236750
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

A general introduction to the topic of rites of passage from a cross-cultural perspective.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction Rough Passages, Reinvented Rites	1	(14)
Celebrating New Life, Ritually Nurturing the Young	15	(72)
Pulling up My Skin for Laces	21	(8)
You Have a Compass within You	29	(7)
Children Are Not Born But Made	36	(9)
Male Mothering	45	(4)
Begreasing and Bespewing Poor Infants	49	(6)
Churching and Gossiping	55	(2)
Appropriate Craziness, Extravagant Praise	57	(2)
Cosmic Fetuses and Bundle Babies	59	(4)
Kneeling on the Earth	63	(8)
A Birth Well Attended	71	(3)
Nurturing Ritual Sensibilities	74	(2)
The Dove Still Travels with Me	76	(7)
Reinventing Birth Rites	83	(4)
Coming of Age, Joining Up	87	(64)
Initiation as a Global Problem	91	(3)
The Reality of My Own Body	94	(6)
Patterns of Initiation	100	(7)
Initiation around the World	107	(4)
Initiatory Fantasy	111	(6)
The Improved Order of Red Men	117	(4)
Betwixt and Between	121	(4)
Debt Payments, Whippings, and Washings	125	(2)
Bartering a Traditional Celebration	127	(4)
Initiatory Wonder	131	(5)
Initiatory Disenchantment	136	(2)
He Emerged as One of Them	138	(4)
Reinventing Initiation Rites	142	(3)
African American Rites of Passage	145	(6)
Divining Mates, Making Kin	151	(66)
Wedding Preparation, Wedding Aftermath	156	(3)
The Purity of an Angel, the Sweat of a Human	159	(4)
Reaching through the Veil	163	(6)
Like a Horse and Carriage?	169	(3)
The Most Splendid Couple in All of Japan	172	(5)
The Sacred Fire Was Our Witness	177	(9)
Married Already or Not Yet?	186	(5)
Old Enough to Be the Father of His Bride	191	(5)
Passing the Torch, Blessing the Bride	196	(2)
From Blessing Marriages to Making Them	198	(7)
Alternative Weddings	205	(5)
Reinventing Marriage Rites	210	(7)
Living with the Dead, Exiting Gracefully	217	(68)
Good Ways to Die	221	(6)
Dying Scenarios	227	(3)
It Took Two Funerals to Bury My Brother	230	(6)
A Coffin Lined with Paper	236	(4)
A Cloud of Earth for a Pillow	240	(3)
Living with the Dead	243	(8)
The Release of a Hungry Ghost	251	(3)
Dancing with the Dead	254	(4)
The American Way of Death	258	(3)
Dead, He Presides Over Us	261	(9)
Mortal Acts	270	(3)
Cyber Ritual and Death on the Web	273	(2)
Reinventing Death Rites	275	(10)
Passages, Troubled and Uncharted	285	(50)
The Spilling of Boys' Blood	289	(5)
Female Genital Mutilation	294	(5)
Ritual Criticism and Widow Burning	299	(3)
Satanic Ritual Abuse	302	(5)
Never ``Instead of,'' Always ``in Addition to''	307	(3)
Abortion Rites in Japan	310	(5)
Until Grief Leaves the Forefront of My Being	315	(5)
The Roller-Coaster of Joy and Woe	320	(3)
Cutting the Cord of Employment	323	(12)
CONCLUSION Beyond Passage	335	(12)
Crying in the Night	337	(3)
Boiling Energy	340	(4)
`Babette's Feast'	344	(3)
Notes	347	(12)
Sources Cited	359	(10)
Index	369