- Ritual
- Ponapnora／ポナプノラ（初潮・女性加入儀礼）
- Region and community
- ペルー中部Amazon・Puellas Yuncullmas等／Yanesha'女子
- Age at the cultural rite
- Variable or not confirmed in the source
- Transition conditions
- Community initiation / Menarche or physical maturity / Trial or training
- Legal age of majority
- Peru18 yearsPeru · Calendar unspecified · Law and supporting sources
About the rite
During the Yanesha’ Ponapnora, a girl at menarche stays for a period in a leaf-walled enclosure while senior women teach skills and norms associated with womanhood. A celebration at the end of seclusion publicly marks her transition from girl to woman.
A researcher observed the ceremony in 2008, and a related thesis was published the following year. It is unclear whether the practice has continued since then.
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