Initiation Rites

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Burton, Roger V.The absent father and cross-sex identity
Bentley, R. Alexander Evolution of initiation rites during the Austronesian dispersal

Associated Hypotheses (2)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Burton, Roger V."In societies with maximum conflict in sex identity, e.g., where a boy initially sleeps exclusively with his mother and where the domestic unit is patrilocal and hence controlled by men, there will be initiation rites at puberty which function to resolve this conflict in identity" (112-113)
Bentley, R. Alexander Ancestral initiation rites will be associated with post-marital residence systems for Austronesian societies.

Associated OCMs

  1. puberty and initiation