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Article: Coming of Age: The Importance of Male Rites ofPassage
by Brett & Kate McKay on November 9, 2008 · from AMan's Life, On Manhood
The elders of the tribe stood in front of the hut and beckonedfor the young man to come out and begin the festivities of thespecial day. The young man had barely slept the night before,anxiously anticipating the tests he would soon be called to endure.As he rose to meet the elder, he was aware of a great gnawing inhis stomach; he had had nothing to eat for the last three days ashe purged his body of impurities.
The ceremony soon began. The elders of the tribe pierced hischest, shoulder, and back muscles with large wooden splints. Ropes,which extended from the roof of the hut, were then attached to thesplints, and the young man was winched up into the air, his wholebody weight suspended from the ropes. Agonizing pain coursedthrough the young man’s body, but he gritted his teeth and triednot to cry out.
While hanging in the air, more splints were hammered through hisarms and legs. Skulls of his dead grandfather and other ancestorswere placed on the ends of the splints. All the while, the youngman cried aloud to the Great Spirit for courage to endure.Eventually, the young man fainted from the loss of blood and thesheer pain of the torture.
When the elders were sure he was unconscious, he was lowereddown and the ropes were removed. Yet the splints were left inplace. When the young man recovered consciousness, he offered hisleft pinky to the tribal elders to be sacrificed. He placed hisfinger on a block and had it swiftly chopped off. This was a giftto the gods and would enable the young man to become a powerfulhunter.
Finally, the young man ran inside a ring where his fellowvillagers had gathered. As he ran, the villagers reached out andgrabbed the still embedded splints, ripping them free. The splintsweren’t allowed to be pulled out way they had been hammered in, buthad to be torn out in the opposite direction, causing the young maneven greater pain and worse wounds. This concluded the day’sceremony.
The young man was exhausted and bloodied, but euphoric. He hadbeen beyond glad to participate in the ritual. This was thegreatest day of his life; today he was a man.
While the coming of age ceremony of the Mandan tribe is aparticularly gruesome example, peoples and cultures fromprehistoric times onward created rites of passage to initiate boysinto manhood. Today, such rites of passage are almost extinct. Boyslack clear markers on their journey to becoming a man. If you askthem when the transition occurs, you will get a variety of answers:“When you get a car,” “When you graduate from college,” “When youget a real job,” “When you lose your virginity,” “When you getmarried, “When you have a kid,” and so on. The problem with many ofthese traditional rites of passage is that they have been put offfurther and further in a young man’s life. Fifty years ago theaverage age an American man started a family was 22. Today, men(for ill or good) are getting married and having kids later inlife. With these traditional rites of passage increasingly beingdelayed, many men are left feeling stuck between boyhood andmanhood. College? Fewer men are graduating. And many that do“boomerang” back home again, spending another few years figuringout what the next step in their life should be. As traditionalrites of passage have become fuzzier, young men are plagued with asense of being adrift.
Of course the process of becoming a man, ceremony or not, doesnot happen in a single moment. But rites of passage are importantin delineating when a boy should start thinking of himself as aman, when he should start carrying himself as a man, when thecommunity should start respecting him as a man, and when he shouldstart shouldering the responsibilities of a man. Lacking theseimportant markers, many young men today belabor their childhood,never sure of when they’ve really “manned up.”
What Is a Rite of Passage
Sociologists have identified three phases that constitute aproper rite of passage: separation, transition, andre-incorporation.
Separation: During this phase an initiate isseparated in some way from his former life. In the case of theMandan tribe, the young man was isolated from the village in a hutfor three days. In other tribes, boys’ heads were shaved and theywere ritually bathed and/or tattooed. In a more modern example,when a man has just enlisted in the military, he is sent away toboot camp. His former possessions are put aside, his head isshaved, and he is given a uniform to wear. During the separationphase, part of the old self is extinguished as the initiateprepares to create a new identity.
Transition: During this phase, the initiate isbetween worlds—no longer part of his old life but not yet fullyinducted into his new one. He is taught the knowledge needed tobecome a full-fledged member of that group. And he is called uponto pass tests that show he is ready for the leap. In tribalsocieties, the elders would impart to the initiate what it meant tobe a man and how the boy was to conduct himself once he had becomeone. The initiate would then participate in ritual ceremonies,which often involved pain and endurance. In the case of the newsoldier, he is yelled at, prodded, exercised, and disciplined toprepare him to receive a rank and title.
Re-incorporation. In this phase, the initiate,having passed the tests necessary and proving himself worthy, isre-introduced into his community, which recognizes and honors hisnew status within the group. For tribal societies, this meant avillage-wide feast and celebration. The boy would now be recognizedby all tribe members as a man and allowed to participate in theactivities and responsibilities that status conferred. For thesoldier, his boot camp experience would come to an end and both hissuperiors and his family would join in a ceremony to recognize hisnew status as a full-fledged member of the military.
During all phases of the process, the men who have gone throughthe ritual themselves guide the young initiate on his journey. Bycontrolling the rite of passage, the men decide when a boy becomesa man.