Taboo - Extreme Rituals

Seizoen: 5 - Aflevering: 13 / 79 - Eerst uitgezonden: 24 november 2008 - Episode ID: 607643

Rituals that mark the passage from one phase of life to another are examined. Included: boys leap headfirst from a 70-foot-tall tower on an island in the South Pacific; a young girl tattoos her face before marriage in Papua New Guinea; a man in West Africa participates in a bloodletting ceremony that will ready him for priesthood.