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L'éclat de la grande étoile suivi du Bain rituel : récits initiatiques peuls / de Amadou-Hampâté Bâ ; édités par Amadou-Hampâté Bâ ... [et al.].

Text

[Paris] : A. Colin, [1974]

1974

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Emerging from the chrysalis : studies in rituals of women's initiation / Bruce Lincoln.

Text

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981.

1981

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Guardians of the flutes : idioms of masculinity / Gilbert H. Herdt.

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New York : McGraw-Hill, c1981.

1981

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMSS DIV IGIC NONF H40Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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L'initiation en Afrique Noire et en Grèce : confrontation de quelques rites de passage / Alphonse Obelitala.

Text

Brazzaville : P. Kivouvou Verlag, Editions bantoues, c1982.

1982

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Le don de soi-même / par François Bizot.

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Paris : École française d'extrême-orient, 1981.

1981

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Contes d'initiation féminine du pays bassa (Cameroun) / Werewere-Liking, Marie-José Hourantier.

Text

Issy les Moulineaux : Les Classiques africains, c1982.

1982

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La naissance a lènvers : essai sur le rituel du Bwiti Fang au Gabon / André Mary ; préface d'Edmond Ortigues.

Text

Paris : L'Harmattan, 1983.

1983

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The sacred yes : initiation talks between master and disciple / Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

Text

Rajneeshpuram, Or., U.S.A. : Rajneesh Foundation International, 1983.

1983

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The Devil at baptism : ritual, theology, and drama / Henry Ansgar Kelly.

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1985.

1985

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Die negro-afrikanische Stammesinitiation : religionsgeschichtliche Darstellung, theologische Wertung, Möglichkeit der Christianisierung / Marc Ntetem.

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Münsterschwarzach : Vier-Türme-Verlag, 1983.

1983

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Initiation / Jean La Fontaine.

Text

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England : Penguin Books ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking Penguin, 1985.

1985

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Initiative and initiation : a cargo cult-type movement in the Sepik against its background in traditional village religion / Patrick F. Gesch.

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St. Augustin, West Germany : Anthropos-Institut, 1985.

1985

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Descent to the Goddess : a way of initiation for women / Sylvia Brinton Perera.

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Toronto [Ont.] : Inner City Books, c1981.

1981

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The shared heart : relationship initiations & celebrations / Barry Vissell & Joyce Vissell ; foreword by Ram Dass.

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Aptos, CA : Ramira Pub., 1986, c1984.

1984

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Initiation / Jean La Fontaine.

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Manchester, U.K. ; Dover, N.H., U.S.A. : Manchester University Press, 1986, c1985.

1986-1985

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Les Rites de passage aujourd'hui : actes du colloque de Neuchâtel 1981 / sous la direction de Pierre Centlivres et Jacques Hainard.

Text

Lausanne, Suisse : L'Age d'homme, c1986.

1986

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Circumcision of women : a strategy for eradication / Olayinka Koso-Thomas.

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London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books, c1987.

1987

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Oedipus in the Stone Age : a psychoanalytic study of masculinization in Papua New Guinea / Theodore Lidz and Ruth Wilmanns Lidz, with the assistance of Harriette Dukeley Borsuch.

Text

Madison, Conn. : International Universities Press, c1989.

1989

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Kamakura shin Bukkyō no seiritsu : nyūmon girei to soshi shinwa / Matsuo Kenji cho.

Text

Tōkyō : Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, Shōwa 63 [1988]

1988

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FormatBook/TextCall number*OSO 90-263Item locationOffsite

Death and the maiden : girls' initiation rites in Greek mythology / Ken Dowden.

Text

London ; New York : Routledge, 1989.

1989

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ʼBrug-pa Dkar-brgyud-pa initiation texts (dbaṅ dpe) : a collection of texts explaining the initiations used in the ʼBrug-pa Dkar-brgyud-pa tradition / according to Mkhas-dbaṅ Saṅs-rgyas-rdo-rje and Bod-mkhas-pa Mi-pham-dge-legs-rnam-par-rgyal-ba.

Text

Darjeeling : Chopal Lama, 1985-

1985-present

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Sarvatantrasvatantra Mahāmahima-Ācārya Śrīmadamrtavāgbhavapraṇītaṃ Śrīsañjīvanīdarśanam / Balajinnātha Paṇḍita praṇītena Hindībhāṣāntareṇa samalaṅkrtam.

Text

Bharatapuram : Miśra Govindaḥ, 2020 [1963 or 1964]

1963-1964

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Rig ʼdzin Kloṅ gsal sñiṅ poʼi gter byon smin byed thams cad chu ʼbabs su bkod pa yid bźin dbaṅ gi rgyal poʼi mdzod : instructions on the methods for conferring the initiations (abhi̤seka) to the revelations of the Gter-ston Kloṅ-gsal-sñiṅ-po / by a disciple of the Kaḥ-thog tradition.

Text

[Delhi] : Nubpa Publications, 1985-

1985-present

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Kandila : Samo ceremonialism and interpersonal relationships / R. Daniel Shaw.

Text

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1990.

1990

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 91-276Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Sambia : ritual and gender in New Guinea / Gilbert Herdt.

Text

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1987.

1987

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Black Academy of Arts and Letters photograph collection [graphic].

Still image

1970?-1973?

1970-1973

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FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Black Academy of Arts and Letters CollectionItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

The wild bull and the sacred forest : form, meaning, and change in senegambian initiation masks / Peter Mark.

Text

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

1992

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 92-93Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Sanmārgadīpaḥ [microform] / Raṅgācāryasvāminā samuddīpitaḥ.

Text

Mumbayyām : Śrīveṅkaṭeśvara Mudraṇālaye, 1889.

1889

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La bible secrète des noirs selon le Bouity : doctrine initiatique de l'Afrique équatoriale / par le prince Birinda de Boudiéguy des Echiras ; illus. par la Comtesse S. de Villermont et R. Kempf d'après l'auteur ; commentaires de Jean-René Legrand.

Text

Paris : Omnium littéraire, 1952.

1952

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 299.6-B (Birinda. Bible secrète des noirs)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Traditions initiatiques de l'Occident : druidisme, Graal, templisme, catharisme, compagnonnage, rosicrucianisme, alchimie, franc-maçonnerie, martinisme / Bernard Vaillant ; préface de Serge Hutin.

Text

Paris : De Vecchi, c1983.

1983

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Aux commencements de la foi : pastorale catéchuménale en Europe aujourd'hui / Conférence Européenne des Catéchuménats ; préface du Cardinal Martini, archevêque de Milan.

Text

Paris : Médiaspaul ; Montreal : Éditions Paulines, c1990.

1990

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 92-6944Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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La pratique ancienne et moderne de la circoncision à Tananarive / Alphonse Rajaofera.

Text

Paris : Jouve, 1919.

1919

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 392.1-R (Rajaofera, A. Pratique ancienne...de la circoncision)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Beschneidung und Reifezeremonien bei Naturvölkern / von Ad. E. Jensen; mit 11 Kartenskizzen.

Text

Stuttgart : Strecker und Schröder, [1933]

1933

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FormatBook/TextCall numberQOV (Jensen, A. E. Beschneidung und Reifezeremonien bei Naturvölkern)Item locationOffsite

Übergänge, im menschlichen leben : Geburt, Initiation, Hochzeit und Tod in aussereuropäischen Gesellschaften / Elizabeth Biasio, Verena Münzer

Text

[Zürich] : Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich, c1980.

1980

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Chisungu; a girls' initiation ceremony among the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia.

Text

New York, Grove Press [1956]

1956

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.968-R (Richards, A. Chisungu)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Initiation ceremony and African sculptures, by Ladislas Segy.

Text

[New York, Segy Gallery] 1953.

1953-1953

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.96-S (Segy, L. Initiation ceremony and African sculptures)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Initiation and religion : a case study from the Wosera of Papua New Guinea / Roger Schroeder.

Text

Fribourg : University Press Fribourg, 1992.

1992

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L'initiation sexuelle et l'évolution religieuse.

Text

[Paris] Presses universitaires de France [1945]

1945

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 392-G (Gordon, P. Initiation sexuelle et l'evolution religieuse)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Sociétés d'initiation bambara.

Text

Paris, Mouton, 1960-

1960-present

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.966-Z (Zahan, D. Sociétés d'initiation bambara) v. 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The initiation rites of the Makonde Tribe, by Lyndon Harries.

Text

Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, The Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1944.

1944

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc+ 572.967-H (Harries, L. Initiation rites of the Makonde Tribe)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Koumen; texte initiatique des pasteurs peul [par] A. Hampaté Ba et G. Dieterlen.

Text

Paris, Mouton, [c1961]

1961

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.966-B (Bâ, A. Koumen)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Education and culture; anthropological approaches.

Text

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1963]

1963

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 370.19-S (Spindler, G. Education and culture)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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African figurines: their ceremonial use in puberty rites in Tanganyika [by] H. Cory.

Text

New York, Grove Press [1956]

1956

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.967-C (Cory, H. African figurines)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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L'initiation ba-kongo et sa signification, Ferdinand Ngoma.

Text

[Paris?], Sorbonne, 1963.

1963

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FormatBook/TextCall numberL-10 3052 v. 23-25Item locationOffsite
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Enero y febrero, ahijadero! : el banquete de los compadres en la Sierra Norte de Puebla / Carlo Antonio Castro.

Text

Xalapa, Ver. [i.e. Veracruz], México : Universidad Veracruzana, 1986.

1986

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