Circumcision

Associated Documents (3)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Broude, Gwen J.Revisiting status-envy: does the theory hold up?
Paige, Jeffery M.The politics of reproductive ritual
Kitahara, MichioSocial contact versus bodily contact: a qualitative difference between father and mother for the...

Associated Hypotheses (10)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Broude, Gwen J."Where the mother (or women in general) serves as primary caretaker in infancy, but where female status is low in the larger social context, males will undergo circumcision ceremonies as a component of initiation rites" (164).
Broude, Gwen J.The role of the father will be associated with circumcision, the couvade, and protest masculinity (170).
Broude, Gwen J.The role of the father will be the most significant predictor of circumcision, the couvade, and protest masculinity (172).
Paige, Jeffery M.Circumcision is positively associated with strength of fraternal interest groups (162).
Paige, Jeffery M.Patrilocality, polygyny, postpartum taboo, and exclusive mother-child sleeping arrangements are positively associated with sex segregation practices (243).
Kitahara, MichioSocieties in which the mother and son sleep in the same bed and the father sleeps separately in the same hut will be more likely to have male circumcision; societies in which the mother and son sleep separately but in the same hut with the father will be less likely to have male circumsion (279).
Kitahara, MichioWhen the father sleeps in a separate hut, mother-baby sleeping arrangements (in same or separate beds) will only be weakly associated with circumcision (279).
Kitahara, MichioSocieties in which mother and son sleep in the same bed and the father sleeps in another hut/village will be more likely to have male circumcision than societies in which the father sleeps in the same hut (280).
Kitahara, MichioFor societies in which the mother and son do not sleep in the same bed, father-son sleeping distance will be more weakly associated with circumcision than in societies where the mother and son sleep in the same bed (281).
Kitahara, MichioMale circumcision becomes more likely when mothers and babies share beds and when fathers sleep in separate huts/villages. Societies with both traits, one trait, and neither trait will be most, less, and least likely to have circumcision, respectively (281-2).

Associated OCMs

  1. body alterations