A circumcision near Kita (Mali) in 1965

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Title:	A circumcision near Kita (Mali) in 1965
Author:	Hopkins, Nicholas S.
Year:	2004
Periodical:	Mande Studies
Volume:	6
Pages:	95-112
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Mali
Subjects:	circumcision initiation Manding social structure
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/44035608
Abstract:	Relying on data from forty years ago the author presents and analyses a male circumcision event in a small village in Kita (Mali) in February and March 1965. He centres on events in the village of Banijanila, but he also draws on several other villages in the near vicinity where circumcisions were carried out at the same time. The analytical framework is based on Arnold van Gennep's notion of 'rites of passage' (1909). The author interprets the events both in terms of key elements in the social organization of the Kita Maninka and in terms of the schema of the rites of passage. From the description of these events a broader analysis of Maninka social organization emerges. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]