PANDEMIC AND THE RITES OF PASSAGE
PANDEMIC AND THE RITES OF PASSAGE

Summary/Abstract: Our species is a cultural species and getting into the spirit of culture means, among other things, getting closer to the everyday life of people through storytelling. The gestures by which one awakens, the acts by which he prepares for the day, the hierarchy of things important to him, all compete for a portrait of an individual and, by extension, of a group, giving us, anthropologists, the extraordinary privilege of understanding the extraordinary diversity of cultures and presenting it to other people. Each one of us is a story in our own right (we are born, we live, we cross thresholds of initiation, of age, profession, social status etc. - rites of passage, as they are called classic in anthropology by Van Gennep).We are going through a very sensitive historical period through this pandemic. It surprised us and affected us all. Our lives will keep this imprint because many things have changed. The way people relate to illness, suffering, joy, personal values has different accents. For a few months, the world stopped. Our article takes a look at this very (im) possibility to cross the classic thresholds of what we call the life cycle in the space of our own home.

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