Abstract
In the previous chapter, we examined a group of rituals related to the individual's private life, which remain chiefly within the bounds of family affairs. What these ritual acts have in common is the fact that they were called forth by more or less unforeseen circumstances (misfortune, chiefly sickness) or by efforts to ward off possible harm proceeding from supernatural forces. However, family life includes other, more stable sets of rituals (marital, birth, those connected with various stages of child-rearing, funerary, and memorial) in which the individual is necessarily involved in the course of his life.
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