Male initiation and circumcision : a South African perspective
| dc.contributor.author | Jones, Chris | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-24T09:15:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-24T09:15:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description | CITATION: Jones, C. 2020. Male initiation and circumcision : a South African perspective, in Grobbelaar, J. & Jones, C. (eds) 2020. Childhood vulnerabilities in South Africa : some ethical perspectives. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928480952/06. | |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at https://africansunmedia.store.it.si/za | |
| dc.description.abstract | I have been interested in and following this rite of passage for a long time, knowing that it creates contexts and opportunities within which children can be extremely vulnerable1. On top of this, so many responsible individuals and institutions have been relatively quiet – especially since the dawn of our new democracy (1994) in South Africa – about botched circumcisions, dehydration, infections and the annual loss of lives during this ritual. This chapter does not rely on statistical and other data as its primary resource, which would be a typical social science approach, followed by a number of chapters in this book, but rather on presenting important views and contributions by mostly African people and scholars who are/were in different ways involved in this ritual, with its accompanying culture. The role of religion in this ritual will not be discussed. I will often refer to the significant report on public hearings on male initiation schools in South Africa, published by the Commission for the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities2 (CRL Rights Commission)3. In their executive summary, they define culture as “the totality of human creation and expression in both tangible and intangible forms” (CRL Rights Commission 2014:5). For them, the tangible forms of culture “include all material products created by a society as a result of human ingenuity. Intangibles comprise, among other things, language, beliefs, tastes, attitudes, rituals, religion” (:5). | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | |
| dc.format.extent | 31 pages | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Jones, C. 2020. Male initiation and circumcision : a South African perspective, in Grobbelaar, J. & Jones, C. (eds) 2020. Childhood vulnerabilities in South Africa : some ethical perspectives. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928480952/06. | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-928480-94-5 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-928480-95-2 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | doi:10.18820/9781928480952/06 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/109699 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | African Sun Media | |
| dc.rights.holder | African Sun Media | |
| dc.rights.holder | Editors retain copyright | |
| dc.subject | Circumcision -- South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Initiation rites -- South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Male initiation and circumcision : a South African perspective | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Chapters in Books | en_ZA |