Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Events (hierarchy name)
4. events (activities)
5. cultural events
6. ceremonies
7. cultural ceremonies

Narrower term/s

• weddings (ceremonies)[+]
  • royal weddings
• funerals
• initiations[+]
  • confirmations (religious ceremonies) [NP]
  • circumcisions [NP]
  • christenings [NP]
  • clitoridectomies
  • comings out [NP] [+]
    • debutante balls
    • sweet sixteens
    • festas de quinze anos
    • quinceañeras
• wakes
• proms [NP]
• fattenings
• betrothals
• divorces (rites or procedures)
• separations (rites or procedures)
• annulments (rites or procedures)
• gap years
• velorios de angelitos

Anotations

Scope note:

Ritual ceremonies performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several important social and personal occasions, such as the onset of puberty.