But then there are those experiences we have in between the typical rites of passage that utterly blindside you.
The rutuburi is the typical ritual dance of the northern Mexican Tarahumara for three agricultural festivals rain, green corn, and harvest and for death and memorial rites.
It is, however, only one of the mobile payment systems on the continent that have bypassed the typical financial rites of passage and are very quickly catapulting consumers into a truly cashless economy, as well as transforming lives in a very real sense.
The novel is narrated by the Price daughters, Rachel, Leah and Adah, and Ruth May, who show us the shocking events of the era, while exploring how it feels to miss the typical teen rites of passage while they're far from home.
Differences of initiation in ethnic groups are a common sense in anthropology, I cite a few examples above, just intending to emphasize that although initiation usually is regarded as a typical example of rite of passage, its complexity, duration, and even it exists or not are difference according to ethnic group.
TO the list of the typical high school rites of passage — first crush, first kiss, first pimple — technology may be adding a ritual: changing your name.
Tumbleweeds (1999, 18, Entertaiment, VHS/Rental) In a typical example of the rite of passage relocation movie, the thrice-married, much abused Mary Jo Janet McTeerr) quits her latest drunken lover in a West Virginia trailer part and takes her aggressive sharp-tongued 12-year-old daughter Ava (named for Ava Gardner) to find a new life in California.
As for the typical western gap year rites of passage, sex, drugs and rock-and-roll, Ford's examples confirm that young North Koreans do things differently.
What's apparent is that not only has Samantha evolved from the programmed rote learning typical of computerized operating systems to the kind of self-reflexive intelligence we associate with the human brain, she has gone beyond that.
Rigid discipline and rote memorization are typical of their experience.
