Publication details
Khitan Perempuan: Who Can Talk for Indonesian Female Circumcision?
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Presentation at the EASR Conference in the pannel Communicating Religion in an Asian Context 1. Throughout the paper the author focuses on the ritual of female circumcision in Indonesian Java, more specifically in the city of Yogyakarta. By the help of fieldwork and academic literature she undertakes not merely the tabooed but also by law forbidden practice in the biggest Muslim country. Female circumcision (FC) in Java and Indonesia in general is considered as a daily practice going hand in hand with the tradition. The author puts to the foreground the form of circumcision, performed in Yogyakarta and its classification as the symbolic and less invasive one. She explains the history of this ritual in the archipelago, national and international regulations and guidelines, analyze the role of different authorities (state, religious leaders and NGOs) on the persistence/abundance of FC and as a consequence it’s ‘globalized’ form (medicalization of FC). The author learns and emphasizes that this is a practice taken for granted, whose origin is little known to the interlocutors (the executors and participants of the ritual) and that the existing literature on the subject is insufficient. For such a research a careful approach is of key importance and the author considers it a great deal by the help of cultural relativism, reductionism and the use of narrative. |
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