Download or read book Emerging From the Chrysalis written by Bruce Lincoln and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now reissued in an expanded edition, this unique book offers the first full-length treatment of women's initiation rites in five cultures. Considering initiation rites among the Tiyyar of South India, the Navajo, the Tiv of West Africa, and the Tukuna of the Northwest Amazon, Lincoln argues that unlike men's rites, women's rites do not impart a change in hierarchical status, but rather a "cosmic" change which offers religious compensation for women's generally low socio-political status.