Search for dissertations about: "islam and male circumcision"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words islam and male circumcision.

2. 1. Multiple meanings of female initiation. "Circumcision" among Jola Women in Lower Casamance, Senegal

   Author : Liselott (Lisen) Dellenborg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; Senegal; Lower Casamance; Kalounaye; Jola; initiation; female circumcision; genital cutting; identity; gender; moherhood; Islam; ethnicity; agency; social change;

   Abstract : This anthropological study examines the meanings and practices of female "circumcision" and initiation in relation to identity and social change in contemporary Muslim Jola society, Senegal, West Africa. During the 20th century, clitoridectomy spread - allegedly as part of Islam - and became essential for a Jola woman's identity as a "real" woman and mother, and an important aspect of the women's initiation ritual. READ MORE

4. 2. Bodily Practices and Medical Identities in Southern Thailand

   Author : Claudia Merli; Ing-Britt Trankell; Jan Ovesen; Rosalind C. Morris; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural anthropology; biopolitics; minorities; Muslims; Southern Thailand; childbirth; medical practices; circumcision; embodiment; Kulturantropologi; Kulturantropologi; Cultural Anthropology;

   Abstract : This study explores contemporary practices concerning women’s and children’s bodies, with a special focus on postpartum practices, the treatment of the afterbirth and its cosmological dimensions, and male and female circumcision. At the intersection between traditional midwifery and modern medicine, Muslim women cross the boundaries between different cosmologies and medical systems. READ MORE