Male and female genital cutting among southern Thailand's muslims: Rituals, biomedical practice and local discourses

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 725-738

  Merli, Claudia ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Female genital cutting; Male circumcision; Southern Thailand

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CIRCUMCISION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POLITICS; RELIGION; STATISTICS; SYMBOLISM; THAILAND;

BUDDHISM; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; CULTURE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; ISLAM; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POLITICS; THAILAND;

EID: 77955747020     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691051003683109     Document Type: Article

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