Making the Mark: Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting
Miroslava Prazak
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Description for Making the Mark: Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting
Hardback. Series: Ohio RIS Africa Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 531.
Why do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in a culture where initiation forms the lynchpin of the ritual cycle at the core of defining gender, identity, and social and political status? In Making the Mark, Miroslava Prazak follows the practice of female circumcision through the lives and activities of community members in a rural Kenyan farming society as they decide whether or not to participate in the tradition.
In an ethnography twenty years in the making, Prazak weaves multiple Kuria perspectives—those of girls, boys, family members, circumcisers, political and religious leaders—into ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Ohio RIS Africa Series
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780896803091
SKU
V9780896803091
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About Miroslava Prazak
Miroslava Prazak is a scholar of economic development and cultural change in East Africa. Employing multidisciplinary research strategies, her work addresses globalization; inequality; social, health, and human rights issues; culturally based ways of knowing; gender-based violence; and politics of the body. She teaches anthropology and African studies at Bennington College.
Reviews for Making the Mark: Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting
“Gritty ethnography at its best. Descriptively rich and insightful, it does an excellent job of helping readers gain an understanding of insider perspectives on the practice of female genital cutting, and the socially embedded context of these meanings.” “Making the Mark provides a richly detailed grass-roots perspective of the procedure (and of male circumcision) among the Kuria people in southern ... Read more