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 twenty years in order to initiate one generation at a time.
e. occurs on evenings in which there is a full moon.


ANS: C

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