The Kikuyu Initiation Ritual

question 8

Multiple Choice

The Kikuyu initiation ritual:

• A) involves no physical operation other than the scarring of women and men's elbows.
• B) does not involve the separation of the initiates from their former status.
• C) involves the incorporation of the initiate back into the society as a whole.
• D) is held every twenty years in order to initiate one generation at a time.
• E) occurs on evenings in which there is a full moon.

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