Arnold Van Gennep's Les Rites Of Passage

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Anglicisation of rite de passage, a French phrase founded by Arnold van Gennep in his well-known work Les rites de passage, “The Rites of Passage.” Van Gennep discussed throughout his work the different categorizations that formed from a higher society and so on. The three phases that formulate the Rite of Passages include separation, liminality and incorporation. In the first phase, separation, human beings slowly disconnect from his or her prevailing status with the intent to move on to a more dominant status. Liminality, the transitional phase, is where one has officially left one state but has not yet entered into the new one. And finally, incorporation. The phase wehre one has completed the steps into his or her new identification, possibly