Bullet ant glove rite of passage

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1) Select one aspect of culture from the list . Once you've made your selection, please delete all other options.

Rites of passage

Week Three Assignment Worksheet

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2) Select a source to use for Part I of the paper. You will be using your textbook and the article by Miner for this part of the paper, but for this worksheet, include the source you found through your own research. Review the tutorial on Evaluating sources and enter your reference in the space below.

Reference entry in APA format:

Crapo, R. H. (2013). Cultural anthropology [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/

Blumenkranta D.G (2017) Going from the ME to the WE: A Long Journey to Where You Are. 28(2), 193-205. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.

3) Include the reference for Part II that corresponds to the topic you’ve chosen. Copy and paste the reference entry from the table (e.g., if you chose Education, you would use the article by Jonsson for Part II).

Tsuji, Y. (2011). Rites of passage to death and afterlife in Japan. Generations, 35(3), 28-33. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.

4) Summarize the main points from each of your sources. See this guide for help with summarizing your sources.

Summary of your source for Part I (include one to two paragraphs, totaling at least 300 words). Enter your summary in the space below.

This article talks about the rite of passage as an adolescence. It focuses on the transition from youth to adulthood and the rites of passage we must go through to achieve this. As youth we are naturally curious and enchanted with wonder but as we get older that desire begins to disappear. It is all about the path that has been chosen for us. Everyone plays a role our parents, friends, social media, and even society. Rites of passage are customary and have been for some time know. There are so many different rites of passage for example there is a tribe whose male youth are men unless they wear a glove filled with bullet ants. I find this absurd especially since the bullet ant has gone on record to have the most painful bite/sting on the Schmidt sting pain index. Every culture is different and who am I judge. This article also focuses on going from me to the we theory. It states the rites of passage are more like an initiation. When a child comes of age and is initiated into nature, their culture and community, the world of their ancestors and spirit, and initiated back into the cosmic order of the universe, which they had encounters with while in the womb (Blumenkrantz,2017). This passage also states the developmental psychology literature provide considerable evidence that adolescents desperately seek public markers and community approbation to verify their entry into adult status (Blumenkrantz,2017). This article to mean really defines the lengths that people will go to in order to complete their right of passage. I truly find it outstanding because no matter where you are or where you come from there is always a rite of passage that will happen. It may not be as severe as others, but it is still a right of passage just the same.

Summary of your source for Part II (include one to two paragraphs, totaling at least 300 words). Enter your summary in the space below.

The passage starts off with a series of auspicious birthdays and mortuary rituals offers Japanese elders a smoother path to death and, afterlife-but social change has impacts on these intricate rituals and those who practice them (Tsuji,2011). This passage speaks about the Japanese mortuary traditions and how it is different in America. The author states that in Japan the author’s family would wake up each morning and offer tea, flowers, rice and other gifts to the family shrine to honor their ancestors or deceased. Once the author moved to America the author noticed that death is more secluded. Honoring the dead in Japan was like a rite of passage, it is expected that when the author’s grandma passes to the next life then the grandson will continue to honor the deceased ancestors with gifts, etc. An eminent anthropologist described death as “the supreme and final crisis of life”. While American culture treats this crisis with a sense of finality and provides little guidance for it, Japanese culture handles it differently (Tsuji, 2011). I somewhat agree with this in some aspect because once we lose someone as Americans lots of time we just go back to our normal lives. If it was someone important to us, we remember them on the day they died/birthday. We might even go to the burial site, as Americans we will not have shrines maybe a picture or maybe even an urn. I have even seen people cremate and keep an urn for their pets. I see the difference, but I can see where we are alike as far as how the Japanese and American treat their loved one’s after they pass into the afterlife. Where I come from death from old age or natural causes is celebrated, death by its self is a rite of passage. It is something we will all go through.

5) Write a working thesis statement based on your sources. See this example .

Working Thesis Statement: