Emerging from the Chrysalis: Rituals of Women's Initiation

by Bruce Lincoln

Book Overview

Now reissued in an expanded edition, this unique book offers the first full-length treatment of women's initiation rites in five cultures. Asserting the critical importance of such rites in a world dominated by men, Lincoln shows that in these societies women's initiation involves not only a transformation of the self but also of the cosmos. Considering initiation rites among the Tiyyar of South India, the Navajo, the Tiv of West Africa, and the Tukuna...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195069102
• ISBN13: 9780195069105
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"