Getting beyond Rites of Passage in Archaeology
Conceptual Metaphors of Journeys and Growth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2227043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Wiseman (0000-0001-8947-5624, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 449-474 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/704696 |
| OpenAlex | W2966330541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 92 |
Van Gennep's rites of passage is one of anthropology's enduring models and is still much used by archaeologists to explain ritual behavior. But despite their ubiquity, there are problems with rites of passage. They lack specificity: their tripartite structure is so general that most rituals can be cast as rites of passage. Also unexplained is why people worldwide use "passages" to structure life cycle rituals or whether alternatives to passage-based rituals exist. This article explores key assumptions that rites of passage are built on, along with productive alternatives. Rites of passage are based on the metaphor change is movement. This article uses Conceptual Metaphor Theory to explain how this concept arises naturally and, consequently, how life cycle rituals based on movement work to "move" people from one social state to another. To illustrate this conceptual metaphor in practice, this article shows how it generates common ideas about death-the domain where archaeologists most commonly employ rites of passage. Movement is not the only widespread source of metaphoric concepts about change. At least a dozen others have been recognized. This article concludes with a commonly used alternative for explaining death and change: a metaphor based on the growth of plants
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| Citation velocity | recent |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |