Motif
Custom conformity as admission test
custom_conformity_as_admission_test
A motif of the Initiation and Transformative Ordeal family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes CHAPTER XVII / CHAPTER XVIII / CHAPTER XIX / CHAPTER XX; lines 8427-8519 confidence: medium
The traveler must do as the people do to gain respect, including crossing difficult bridges unaided and not being carried in a hammock; the narrator contrasts this with parts of Africa and states that under pia, deviation from custom is regarded as criminal.
The traveler must do as local people do, such as crossing difficult bridges unaided and not being carried in a hammock, to gain respect and avoid violating custom.
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