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stated that rites of passage are marked by three stages:; 1. Separation: Wherein the initiates are separated from their old identities through physical and symbolic means.; 2. Transition: Wherein the initiated are "betwixt and between". Victor Turner argued that this stage is marked by liminality, a condition of ambiguity or disorientation in which initiates have been stripped of their old identities, but have not yet acquired their new one. Turner states that "the attributes

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