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| Title: | Female 'Circumcision' in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change |
| Editors: | Shell-Duncan, Bettina Hernlund, Ylva |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Directions in applied anthropology, Adaptations and innovations |
| City of publisher: | Boulder, CO |
| Publisher: | Lynne Rienner Publishers |
| ISBN: | 1555878717; 1555879950 |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | female circumcision Cultural Roles Health, Nutrition, and Medicine Genital Circumcision/Cuttings/Surgeries |
| Abstract: | This volume brings together contributors from the fields of anthropology, public health, political science, demography, history, and epidemiology to critically examine the issue of female genital cutting (FGC) or 'circumcision' in Africa and to explore the role that scholars can and should - or should not - play in approaching the issue. In case studies from seven countries - Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya, Chad, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, and Gambia - where FGC is traditionally and currently performed, the contributors evaluate the impact of international efforts to eliminate the practice. A focus on local reactions to external involvement underscores that the myriad programmes fashioned to effect changes in FGC ritual and procedure must be initiated and supported by indigenous communities if they are to be lasting and effective. Contributors: Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Fuambai Ahmadu, Deborah Balk, John C. Caldwell, Pat Caldwell, Claudie Gosselin, Ellen Gruenbaum, Ylva Hernlund, Michelle C. Johnson, Lori Leonard, Gerry Mackie, Mairo Usman Mandara, Leunita Auko Muruli, Walter Obungu Obiero, I.O. Orubuloye, Bettina Shell-Duncan, Lynn Thomas. |
