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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.].
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- [Paris] : A. Colin, [1974]
- 1974
- 2 Items
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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
- 1 Item
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Guardians of the flutes : idioms of masculinity / Gilbert H. Herdt.
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- New York : McGraw-Hill, c1981.
- 1981
- 2 Items
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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
- 1 Item
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Le don de soi-même / par François Bizot.
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- Paris : École française d'extrême-orient, 1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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Initiation / Jean La Fontaine.
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- Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England : Penguin Books ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking Penguin, 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
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Transition rites : cosmic, social and individual order : proceedings of the Finnish-Swedish-Italian Seminar held at the University of Rome "La Sapienza," 24th-28th March 1984 / edited by Ugo Bianchi = I riti di passaggio : ordine cosmico, sociale, individuale : atti del Seminario Italo-Finno-Svedese tenuto all'Università di Roma "La Sapienza," 24-28 marzo 1984 / a cura di Ugo Bianchi.
- Text
- Roma : Bretschneider, c1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
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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
- 2 Items
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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
- 1 Item
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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
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OSO 90-263 Offsite ʼBrug pa Dkar brgyud paʼi Dbaṅ dpe : a collection of initiation texts of the ʼBrug-pa Dkar-brgyud-pa tradition / by Mkhas-dbaṅ Saṅs-rgyas-rdo-rje (1569-1645) and others.
- Text
- Darjeeling, W.B. : Chopal Lama, 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OZ+ 90-2254 Offsite Death and the maiden : girls' initiation rites in Greek mythology / Ken Dowden.
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
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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.
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- Darjeeling : Chopal Lama, 1985-
- 1985-present
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OZ+ 90-7051|zLibrary has: Vol. 1-3. v. 3 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OZ+ 90-7051|zLibrary has: Vol. 1-3. v. 2 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OZ+ 90-7051|zLibrary has: Vol. 1-3. v. 1 Offsite Dpal ʼBrug paʼi riṅ lugs las gtso bor byon paʼi smin grol rgyab brten gyi skor ji ltar thob tshul nor buʼi do śal : record of the abhiṣeka and their transmission available in the ʼBrug-pa Dkar-brgyud-pa tradition / received by the Ninth ʼDzi-sgar Mchol-sprug ʼJigs-med-mi-pham-bstan-paʼi-ñi-gźon-phrin-las-kun-khyab-dpal-bzaṅ-poʼi-sde.
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- Rewalsar, Distt. Mandi, H.P., India : Zigar Drukpa Kargyud Institute, 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OZ+ 90-9468 Offsite Sarvatantrasvatantra Mahāmahima-Ācārya Śrīmadamrtavāgbhavapraṇītaṃ Śrīsañjīvanīdarśanam / Balajinnātha Paṇḍita praṇītena Hindībhāṣāntareṇa samalaṅkrtam.
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- Bharatapuram : Miśra Govindaḥ, 2020 [1963 or 1964]
- 1963-1964
- 1 Item
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Gter chen Bdud ʼdul rdo rjeʼi gter chos dbaṅ chuʼi mdzes rgyan bdud rtsiʼi bum bzaṅ : instructions on conferring the initiations (abhiṣeka) to the revelations of Spo-bo Gter-ston Bdud-ʼdul-rdo-rje / by a disciple of the Kaḥ-thog tradition.
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- [Delhi] : Nubpa Publications, 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OZ+ 91-6521 Offsite 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.
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- [Delhi] : Nubpa Publications, 1985-
- 1985-present
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OZ+ 91-6522|zLibrary has: Vol. 1-3. v. 1 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OZ+ 91-6522|zLibrary has: Vol. 1-3. v. 2 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OZ+ 91-6522|zLibrary has: Vol. 1-3. v. 3 Offsite Kandila : Samo ceremonialism and interpersonal relationships / R. Daniel Shaw.
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 91-276 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Drugs, addiction, & initiation : the modern search for ritual / Luigi Zoja ; translated by Marc E. Romano and Robert Mercurio.
- Text
- Boston : Sigo Press, [1989]
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLE 90-2994|m(SASB) Offsite The Sambia : ritual and gender in New Guinea / Gilbert Herdt.
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- New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
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Black Academy of Arts and Letters photograph collection [graphic].
- Still image
- 1970?-1973?
- 1970-1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Black Academy of Arts and Letters Collection Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The wild bull and the sacred forest : form, meaning, and change in senegambian initiation masks / Peter Mark.
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 92-93 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sanmārgadīpaḥ [microform] / Raṅgācāryasvāminā samuddīpitaḥ.
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- Mumbayyām : Śrīveṅkaṭeśvara Mudraṇālaye, 1889.
- 1889
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *XMM-813 Offsite 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.
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- Paris : Omnium littéraire, 1952.
- 1952
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 299.6-B (Birinda. Bible secrète des noirs) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Traditions initiatiques de l'Occident : druidisme, Graal, templisme, catharisme, compagnonnage, rosicrucianisme, alchimie, franc-maçonnerie, martinisme / Bernard Vaillant ; préface de Serge Hutin.
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- Paris : De Vecchi, c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
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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.
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- Paris : Médiaspaul ; Montreal : Éditions Paulines, c1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 92-6944 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
La pratique ancienne et moderne de la circoncision à Tananarive / Alphonse Rajaofera.
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- Paris : Jouve, 1919.
- 1919
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 392.1-R (Rajaofera, A. Pratique ancienne...de la circoncision) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Beschneidung und Reifezeremonien bei Naturvölkern / von Ad. E. Jensen; mit 11 Kartenskizzen.
- Text
- Stuttgart : Strecker und Schröder, [1933]
- 1933
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text QOV (Jensen, A. E. Beschneidung und Reifezeremonien bei Naturvölkern) Offsite Übergänge, im menschlichen leben : Geburt, Initiation, Hochzeit und Tod in aussereuropäischen Gesellschaften / Elizabeth Biasio, Verena Münzer
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- [Zürich] : Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich, c1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
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Chisungu; a girls' initiation ceremony among the Bemba of Northern Rhodesia.
- Text
- New York, Grove Press [1956]
- 1956
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.968-R (Richards, A. Chisungu) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Initiation ceremony and African sculptures, by Ladislas Segy.
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- [New York, Segy Gallery] 1953.
- 1953-1953
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.96-S (Segy, L. Initiation ceremony and African sculptures) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Initiation and religion : a case study from the Wosera of Papua New Guinea / Roger Schroeder.
- Text
- Fribourg : University Press Fribourg, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
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L'initiation sexuelle et l'évolution religieuse.
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- [Paris] Presses universitaires de France [1945]
- 1945
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 392-G (Gordon, P. Initiation sexuelle et l'evolution religieuse) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sociétés d'initiation bambara.
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- Paris, Mouton, 1960-
- 1960-present
- 2 Items
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The initiation rites of the Makonde Tribe, by Lyndon Harries.
- Text
- Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, The Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1944.
- 1944
- 1 Item
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Koumen; texte initiatique des pasteurs peul [par] A. Hampaté Ba et G. Dieterlen.
- Text
- Paris, Mouton, [c1961]
- 1961
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.966-B (Bâ, A. Koumen) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Education and culture; anthropological approaches.
- Text
- New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1963]
- 1963
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 370.19-S (Spindler, G. Education and culture) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
African figurines: their ceremonial use in puberty rites in Tanganyika [by] H. Cory.
- Text
- New York, Grove Press [1956]
- 1956
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.967-C (Cory, H. African figurines) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
L'initiation ba-kongo et sa signification, Ferdinand Ngoma.
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- [Paris?], Sorbonne, 1963.
- 1963
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 572.967-N (Ngoma Ngambu. Initiation ba-kongo) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text L-10 3052 v. 23-25 Offsite 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
- 1 Item
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