It appears that many people living in the 21st century believe that they are constantly participating in rites of passage rather than engaging in useful activity. Strangely enough the interest in Van Gennep's book has increased not diminished in the century since it was published. Van Gennep noted that rites of passage appeared to be most prominent in primitive societies characterized by a magico-religious world view and were of diminishing importance in modern society which considers itself to be rational. travel to alien territories) and the change of season.
There also rites of passage for physical moves (i.e. There are rites to mark the passages for all the stages of our lives (birth, onset of puberty, end of studies, entry into trade or profession, engagement, marriage, etc.). Van argues that rites of passage can be found everywhere in our society. Van Gennep's purview, however, is much wider than that of Campbell who is focussed simply on the myth of the heroic quest of the national hero. What I can say, however, is that van Gennep's book has a very natural appeal for fans of Joseph Campbell. I am unable to state, however, that Campbell ever acknowledged this to be the case. 1- Separation -2-Initiation and -3- Return) comes from van Gennep's "Rites of Passage". Having recently read Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", I concur with the English Wikipedia article asserts that Joseph Campbell's proposed three-part structure for the heroic quest (i.e. According to the introduction, Frazer was in attendance at the conference where van Gennep first presented his thesis on "Rites of Passage". Although, the first chapter of "The Rites of Passage" proposes a sociological framework for the analysis of the rites, it is essentially free of jargon. Arnold van Gennep's "The Rites of Passage" will be an absolute delight for anyone who enjoyed either James George Frazer's "Golden Bough" or Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces." Like Frazer's book, it is a highly entertaining work of ethnography filled with fascinating descriptions of curious folk rites.
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