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Research outputs: INITIATION RITUALS
2015 Evaluating adherence to legislation guiding traditional initiation and circumcision amongst male initiates in the eastern Cape province, South Africa
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Download this report2014 Gendered naming and values attached to amaXhosa Amakrwala (graduate-initiates)
This paper is based on a study that explored the gendered naming and values attached to the amaXhosa amakrwala, and the kind of behaviour ex...
2014 Letter to the editor: time to stop preventable deaths from unsterile traditional male circumcision practices
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Download this report2012 Gendered naming and values inherent in the Xhosa amakrwala (graduate-initiates): implications for teaching a multicultural class
Rites of passage play a central role in African socialization, demarking the different stages in an individual's development, as well as tha...
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