Définition d'un concept : approche anthropologique du rite de passage

The society builds from time and space rituals, prompting the man to move in a world of specific representations, and gives his outlines. This assumption refers to its first nature animal ritual and symbolic of the different stages of life are punctuated by the rites of passage known as the tripartite conceptualization, now famous, Arnold Van Gennep who teaches that any statue, to be effective, must necessarily pass through three stages: separation, margin and aggregation. Assigning to each other his place in time and space, the rite of passage is not limited to a simple social vocation, its socializing function is a necessity which suggests that society could not exist without it. Ultimately, the rite of passage allows the packaging of the individual by an assimilation rules defined for a particular status. All these steps, whether biological or social, involve collective emotions. In this way, that participate in a ritual stands for integration into a community as to evade would miss its sense.