Circumcision Rites of the Becwana Tribes.

Religious circumcision, invasive rites, neutrality and equality: bearing the burdens and consequences of belief.

The decision of the German regional court in Cologne on 26 June 2012 to prohibit the circumcision of minors is important insofar as it recognises the qualitative similarities between the practice and other prohibited invasive rites, such as female genital cutting. However, recognition of similarity poses serious questions with regard to liberal public policy, specifically with regard to the exc...

The rites of spring

Every spring I get depressed. Last month I had the stunning realization that graduate student recruitment is a major cause of my spring depression. Each year, as the days lengthen, graduate programs engage in their ritualistic seduction of prospective students. In the past 15 years, US institutions, including the most elite and respected, have evolved mating displays worthy of birds and fish. T...

A Barbaric Method of Circumcision Amongst Some of the Arab Tribes of Yemen

seventh day after its birth, but this is not observed in many places, even in Arabia. The common, practice amongst all Mahomedans and Jews, as is well known, is to remove the redundant portion of the prepuce only. Th.ere is a district in Yemen called A1 Hoora, about 15 days' journey from Aden. In this province of A1 Hoora there are six villages, viz., Hijaji, Mugrasi, Udebli, Ukabi, Wahagari an...

From Rites to Rights:

It is the charge of economic history not only to explain the economic past, but to use it to enrich and develop economic theory (North, 1994). In paleoeconomics, theory plays the additional role of adding veracity of accounts based on sparse evidence through the demonstration of internal consistency. We synthesize pre-historical and historical evidence available from the settlement and moderniz...

The Last Rites of Public Campaign Financing?