Title: Transitions
Description: 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.)