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This photo shows South African boys returning from an “initiation school” to welcome their entry into adulthood. As is classic, in this culture the puberty ritual involves separation from one’s family, symbolically being “reborn” or changed (in this case, being circumcised), and intensive instruction in the conduct befitting their new status as men.
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