Adolescence

For the satere maway tribe in the heart of the amazon rain forest, the proving ground is physical. The boys around the age of 12 or 13 prove their man by enduring the stings of hundreds of bullet ants. On the other side of the world, young massai boys have to endure ritualized circumcision without wincing. And among the apache in america's southwest, teen aged girls take part in the sunrise ceremony continuously dancing for hours on end in an open field until near exhaustion. Only then do they prove to their tribe they are on their way to becoming a woman.