ISSN: 2265-6294

Circumcision Of Male Children - An Anthropological Study In The City Of Hilla

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Salwan Fawzi Abd baqli Al-obeydi

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The subject of the study has summarized the culture of male circumcision that has existed in Iraqi society and the local community for thousands of years, it is one of the important healthy religious-cultural customs that are practiced in Iraqi society and the local community in particular, it is one of the duties that must be adhered to by the Babylon families when the birth of their males, from the first day of the birth of the male child until he reaches the age of five or six years of age, he is advised and even forced to perform circumcision of his penis, the field of anthropological study in the city of Hilla deals with identifying the content of cultural circumcision, and the ancient method of circumcision, the modern methods that occurred in the circumcision process, in addition to the rituals at the beginning of the ceremony that takes place during the circumcision period, as one of the important cultural customs in the city of Hilla.

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