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is a dialogical rite that both sustains and subverts its own intended symbolism in that the rite frequently flirts with castration, both in terminology and gesture.

Often, however, MC is a dialogical rite that both sustains and subverts its own intended symbolism. In terminology and gesture, the rite frequently flirts with castration (Bohannan 1954, p. 3... Cansever 1965).3 Egyptian adults, reported Ammar (1954, p. 123), may threaten to recircumcise children! (422)

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