The Scarification: The Facial Scarification in South Sudan

ISBN-13: 9781475065640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 132 str.

John Monyjok Maluth

Opis

This book discusses the facial scarification, found in South Sudan, among the Nuer and Dinka communities. The scarification is a kind of body art, that can be done in different forms depending on the community practices. There are spiritual scarification, decoration scarification and or body art scarification. This type of scarification discussed in this book is the one mainly meant to graduate a person from boyhood into manhood or into womanhood. In this book, you will read about: -> The concept of Scarification -> The Scarification in other tribes -> The Consequences of Scarification -> The Scarification Views