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Birth and Naming Rites of Passage in the Khasi Indigenous Community: An Exploratory Discourse

Author(s) Ruth Ibameri Kharbamon, Dr. Pankaj Kumar Kalita
Country India
Abstract There are rites of passage in every religion. They usually involve rituals or ceremonies to mark significant moments in a person’s life, such as birth, adolescence, marriage and death. These highly symbolic ceremonies prepare people of their respective faiths for new roles in their personal lives. These rights of passage temporarily extricate participants from their social statuses.
The anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep, in his book, Rites of Passage, explains how cultures and communities ritualize and guide the transitions in life from infancy to old age and discusses extensively on the three stages that an individual will have to go through when she or he goes through a rite of passage.
Rites of passage are therefore closely connected to biological transitions in a person’s life which includes birth, puberty, marriage and death and the ceremonies performed marks important transitional periods in a person’s life. The ceremonies involve activities and exhortations that strip individuals of their present role and prepare them for new roles to acknowledge their entry into a different phase of their lives.
The present paper will attempt to describe the birth and naming ceremony as a rite of passage in the Khasi indigenous community of Meghalaya and will apply the relevance and significance of the three stages in the rites of passage as outlined by Van Gennep.
Keywords rites of passage, rituals, birth, ceremony, indigenous
Field Sociology
Published In Volume 7, Issue 1, January-February 2025
Published On 2025-01-19
Cite This Birth and Naming Rites of Passage in the Khasi Indigenous Community: An Exploratory Discourse - Ruth Ibameri Kharbamon, Dr. Pankaj Kumar Kalita - IJFMR Volume 7, Issue 1, January-February 2025. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i01.35507
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i01.35507
Short DOI https://doi.org/g82gmq
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