Episode 130 - It's a Pod Mitzvah!

Amber and Anna discuss some of the different rituals, ceremonies, and traditions associated with coming of age in cultures around the world and throughout time. From tossing baby teeth up to the roof to tying a vine to your ankles and jumping off a wooden tower, it's all fascinating.

Links:

Young People's Conceptions of the Transition to Adulthood (Youth & Society)

• Voice Changes for Boys During Puberty (Very Well Family)

• Right–left and the scrotum in Greek sculpture (Laterality, via ResearchGate)

• 13 Amazing Coming of Age Traditions From Around the World (Global Citizen)

• Rite of Passage (Cultural Anthropology)

• The Excruciating Bullet Ant Glove Test Of The Mawé People (All That’s Interesting)

• What It's Like to Get Stung by the World's Most Painful Insect (Esquire)

• Seijin No Hi: Celebrating Japanese Youth’s Rite of Passage (Savvy Tokyo)

• Meet Vanuatu's land-diving daredevils, who inspired bungee jumping (CNN Travel)

• Coming of Age Rituals (Hudson County Community Colleges Libraries)

• Girling the girl and boying the boy: the production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica (World Archaeology)

Image (via Reddit): A bullet ant glove, part of the Sateré-Mawé coming-of-age ritual for boys.