In this study, I address contemporary ways of looking after children and care giving roles women play in today’s Aboriginal community in Brisbane, Australia. Data were collected through participant observation and interviews during field work in a family care centre managed by Indigenous women with the staff and their clients. My main contribution is in describing how various activities of the ...

In his classic study of the collective representation of death, Robert Hertz suggested that death is best understood as a rite of passage in which the deceased makes a transition from the visible “here and now” to an invisible hereafter.1 Death is thus the ultimate experience of passage; it is a threshold through which one passes beyond the house of life to some unknown place. As the terminatio...

The coronavirus pandemic has affected almost every aspect of human life across the entire globe, including tertiary education. This interdisciplinary study explored how undergraduate students in institutions located Gauteng Province South Africa experienced and coped with effects between 2020 to 2022 academic years. article used Rites Passage Concept interpret they transitioned from in-person l...

Qualitative studies of alcohol's ritual influences indicate that college undergraduates who drink heavily tend to view alcohol use as integral to the student role and feel entitled to drink irresponsibly. Our analyses, based on a standardized measure of these beliefs administered to approximately 300 students, confirmed these findings. Among our sample, beliefs about alcohol and the college exp...

BATEK, BATOK, AND WHATOK are various local words that denote a traditional tattooing practice among the peoples in the Cordillera Region, particularly in the province of Kalinga. Their bodies are inked with figurative designs of snake, centipede, frog, rice grain, and fern plant, among others, and interspersed with geometric motifs and patterns. These traditional tattoos speak strongly about th...

A recent report prepared for the Department of Health and Ageing examined attitudes and behaviours of drinkers at risk (Shanahan et al). The study found that drinking alcohol is intrinsic to Australian culture and the activity is seen as both normal, sociable and expected. People expect to drink alcohol in a wide range of situations and on a wide range of occasions. For chronic regular drinkers...

This paper explores how local people in a province in southern Thailand perceive the practice of male and female genital cutting. In order to understand the importance placed on these practices, a comparison is drawn between the two and also between the male circumcision and the Buddhist ordination of monks as rites of passage. Discourses on the exposure or concealment of male and female bodies...

The objective of this study is to describe the evolution of palliative care in order to reflect on the possibility of its origin in primitive cultures and their relationship with the beginnings of the cult of the dead. It describes the change in the symbolic structures and social interactions involved in palliative care during prehistory: functional unit, functional framework and functional ele...

The object of this paper is to propose a structuralist symbolic analysis model based on the dichotomy everyday time/space versus tourism and its relationship with recreation/sparing dimension. A bibliographic review studies that analyze tourist experience was carried out, in which, one hand, high recurrence conceptual rites passage liminality identified and, other, need rethink some aspects suc...