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Article: Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives
- Article from:
- Western Folklore
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives. Edited by Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. vi + 290, introduction, notes, bibliography, contributors, index, acknowledgments. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper)
In 1973, while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Côte d'Ivoire, I received an invitation from the chief of a nearby village to visit a group of girls who were preparing for their initiation into womanhood. Accepting the chief's kind invitation, I traveled to a small house in the forest where the girls were learning traditional songs and dances while eating as much chicken and rice as they could hold. Several days later, I attended the ...