Maran Among the Anthropologists: The Banda Rituals of Circumcision and Excision in Batouala

After providing the colonial and anthropological context for the Bandas’ Ga’nza rituals of male circumcision and female excision and commenting on the “excision” of such rituals from the first (1922) translation of Batouala (1921), the article analyses Maran’s partial rendition of the rites, while p...

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Main Author: Chantal Zabus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université des Antilles 2021-12-01
Series:Études Caribéennes
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/23304
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description After providing the colonial and anthropological context for the Bandas’ Ga’nza rituals of male circumcision and female excision and commenting on the “excision” of such rituals from the first (1922) translation of Batouala (1921), the article analyses Maran’s partial rendition of the rites, while pitting it against two later anthropological texts, published in the same year (1938), i. e. Jomo Kenyatta’s Facing Mount Kenya and A. M. Vergiat’s Les rites secrets des primitifs de l’Oubangui. References are to the Black Orpheus edition of Batouala: A True Black Novel (1972).
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Maran Among the Anthropologists: The Banda Rituals of Circumcision and Excision in Batouala
Études Caribéennes
Batouala
censorship
male circumcision
female excision
genital alterations
Jomo Kenyatta
title Maran Among the Anthropologists: The Banda Rituals of Circumcision and Excision in Batouala
title_full Maran Among the Anthropologists: The Banda Rituals of Circumcision and Excision in Batouala
title_fullStr Maran Among the Anthropologists: The Banda Rituals of Circumcision and Excision in Batouala
title_full_unstemmed Maran Among the Anthropologists: The Banda Rituals of Circumcision and Excision in Batouala
title_short Maran Among the Anthropologists: The Banda Rituals of Circumcision and Excision in Batouala
title_sort maran among the anthropologists the banda rituals of circumcision and excision in batouala
topic Batouala
censorship
male circumcision
female excision
genital alterations
Jomo Kenyatta
url https://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/23304
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