- Title
- ‘Boys will be boys’: traditional Xhosa male circumcision, HIV and sexual socialisation in contemporary South Africa
- Creator
- Vincent, Louise
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141500
- Identifier
- vital:37980
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/13691050701861447
- Description
- Ritual male circumcision is among the most secretive and sacred of rites practiced by the Xhosa of South Africa. Recently, the alarming rate of death and injury among initiates has led to the spotlight of media attention and government regulation being focused on traditional circumcision. While many of the physical components of the ritual have been little altered by the centuries, its cultural and social meanings have not remained unchanged. This paper attempts to understand how some of these cultural and social meanings have shifted, particularly with respect to attitudes towards sex and the role that circumcision schools traditionally played in the sexual.
- Format
- 16 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Culture, Health and Sexuality
- Relation
- Vincent, L., 2008. ‘Boys will be boys’: traditional Xhosa male circumcision, HIV and sexual socialisation in contemporary South Africa. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 10(5), pp.431-446.
- Relation
- Culture, Health and Sexuality volume 10 number 5 431 446 June 2008 1464-5351
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