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Title:Excision: traditional mutilation or cultural value?
Authors:Epelboin, Sylvie
Epelboin, Alain
Year:1980
Periodical:African Environment: Environmental Studies and Regional Planning Bulletin
Volume:4
Issue:14-16
Pages:177-188
Language:English
Geographic term:West Africa
Subject:female circumcision
Abstract:Based on a medico-ethnological study and on interviews conducted in both rural and urban areas during a series of working visits to different West African countries, the present paper discusses some of the more concrete aspects of excision: the act of excision itself; its medical aspects; a brief outline of its origins, justifications and meanings; the gulf between the partial and theoretical opinions expressed by those who favour continuing the practice and the real life experience of excision by African women. Notes.
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