Changing practices and shifting meanings of female genital cutting among the Maasai of Arusha and Manyara regions of Tanzania. (2017)
This study is a Descriptive research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): Van Bavel,H.,Coene,G.,& Leye,E.
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: None.
Objective: This study looked at changing practices and shifting meanings of female genital cutting among the Maasai people in Tanzania.
Study Population:
Findings: The findings suggest that an increasing social pressure to abandon female genital cutting has inspired the hiding of the practice,causing the actual cutting to become detached from its traditional ceremonial connotations. This detaching of cutting from ceremony has created a shift in meanings: the ceremony still carries the meaning of passage into adulthood,while the cutting seems to function as a way of inscribing Maasai identity into the body
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Eastern Africa
Country(ies):Tanzania