A Cross-Cultural Summary: Female Initiation Rites

Societies outside of North America will tend to have painful female initiation rites (383. 8).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Fisher's Exact Test	Marginally Supported	p = .082	Phi = -.263	Two-tailed

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Painful Female Initiation Rites	Dependent	Puberty And Initiation
Society Location	Independent	Location

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Brown, Judith K.	1963	Societies with male initiation involving both genital operation and isolation are positively associated with painful initiation rites for females.	`UNKNOWN`	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	Societies where the kin group is exclusively patrilineal will tend to have painful female initiation rites (383, 186).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Brown, Judith K.	1963	Societies with male initiation rites involving both genital operation and isolation will be associated with painful initiation rites for females	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Brown, Judith K.	1963	"If one limits the definition of male initiation rites to only those ceremonies characterized by both a genital operation and seclusion, a very strong relationship emerges between these male rites and those female initiation ceremonies which [cause pain to initiate]" (845)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Brown, Judith K.	1963	"In societies practicing patrilocal residence, in which there is also an exclusive mother-infant sleeping arrangement, female initiation rites will subject the initiate to extreme pain in the form of a genital operation or extensive tattooing" (843)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author