Title: Transitions :
Authors: Fried, Martha Nemes; Fried, Morton H.; Fried, Morton H.
Date: 1980
Publisher: Norton,
Physical description: 306 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: 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.
Contents: The ages of our kind -- Birth -- Puberty/adolescence -- Marriage -- Death -- Socialist countries -- Transitions in transition.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Ethnology--Côte d'Ivoire.; Ethnology.; Initiation rites--Religious aspects.; Initiation rites.; Rites and ceremonies.