Paper 2 · Heritage, Taboos and Totems
A ritual that marks a person's movement from one stage of life to the next, such as birth, initiation, marriage or death, is called a rite of ............ .
Model answer
passage
Also accepted: rite of passage, passages
Explanation: A rite of passage moves a person publicly from one status to another, so that the community and the ancestors recognise the change. Birth and naming, initiation, marriage, burial and kurova guva are the main ones in Indigenous Religion.
Derived from ZIMSEC Family and Religious Studies 4047/2, November 2020, Q1