WOMENSTD 438 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lobolo, Female Genital Mutilation, Bride Price
12 Apr 2016
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The diseased heart of africa jean comarof: the black body became ever more speciically associated with degradaion, disease, and contagion, theme of africa as savage and sufering. Thomas readings female circumcision (kenya: muthirigu dance song that protested interference with female circumcision (was seen as iniiaion into adolescents) Defended female circumcision as a reproducive necessity: poliics of the womb: Highlights how reproducive concerns have structured old hierarchies based in gender, generaion, and kinship also contributed to the construcion of new ones grounded n racial diference and civilized status. Draws atenion to elites" persistent eforts to regulate reproducion and the coninual challenges that they faced from juniors and dependents, subjects and ciizens. Ban was introduced as a meand for the adc and njuri ncheke to distance the. Meru from the kikuyu and demonstrate their graitude for being declared a separate land unit. Ban decided on by men they as men had the inal say on excision.
