The Kikuyu initiation ritual ______

a. involves no physical operation other than the scarring of women and men’s elbows
b. does not involve the separation of the initiates from their former status
c. involves the incorporation of the initiate back into the society as a whole
d. is held every 20 years in order to initiate one generation at a time
e. occurs on evenings on which there is a full moon


ANSWER:
c

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