Male Circumcision in Africa

ISBN-13: 9783639154351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 184 str.

Omar Egesah

Opis

Circumcision has been practiced in Africa to initiateadolescent boys into adulthood from time immemorial.Communities with a history of traditionalcircumcision in Sub-Saharan Africa are graduallytaking up clinical circumcision and yet stilladhering to traditional circumcision processes. Byuse of both ethnographic and descriptive means, thisbook explains modernity factors that determinechoosing between traditional and clinicalcircumcision. Parents and their sons consider cost ofcircumcision and health concerns; HIV infectionthreat, safety, complications and other adverseconsequences. Thus, traditional circumcisionprocesses are not popular in prevailing economic andhealth circumstances. However, circumcisions areredefined today to serve their traditionalsignificance of initiation as derived from WilliamThomas concept of "redefinition of the situation".This book is recommended for researchers, scholarsand students in the field of circumcision andHIV/AIDS. It is also recommended for culture andhealth researchers interested in male circumcision.

O autorze

Omar B Egesah, PhD: Studied Anthropology at Moi University,
Kenya. Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Human
Ecology at Moi University, Kenya. Research consultant in Culture
and Health.