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Illustrations

Figures

1A. People of Chacha Jonas

1B. People of Moses Kisito

1C. People of Stephen Wambura

2. Kuria descent structure

3. Alternative Rite of Passage Certificate

4A. Opinion poll findings on genital cutting (girls)

4B. Opinion poll findings on gential cutting (boys)

Map

Kuria District

Photographs

Following Chapter 2

Male initiates beginning walk home from circumcision ground

Males walking back from circumcision

Musicians in front of homestead: flute, ibirandi, ekegoogo

Omosaamba pausing at cattle gate amid revelers

Returning to an initiate’s home

Male initiate (left rear) resting upon return home, guarded by other abasaamba

Homestead flying flags of initiation

Following Chapter 3

Female initiate leaving circumcision ground

Escorts on hillside encountering living bushes

Musicians with ekegoogo and ibiraandi

Escorts in marketplace

Female initiate walking home with escorts

Father, grandmother, and relatives waiting to greet initiates as they return home

Omosaamba resting upon returning from cutting, counting up her money

Following Chapter 5

Youths posing/threatening at ekehonio

Male abasaamba waiting to be fed at ekehonio

Serving food for the omooramia

Female initiates eating at ekehonio

Male abasaamba eating at ekehonio

Males singing praise poems at ekehonio

Mother and daughter during seclusion

Abasaamba being consoled at ekehonio

Male abasaamba at ekehonio

Anointing relatives prior to coming out of seclusion (okoroka)

Umumura coming out of seclusion (at cattle gate), with ritual supporter (omooramia)

Young women (abaiseke) with their attendants coming out of seclusion

Table

1. Girls’ and boys’ opinions of female genital cutting in 1988, 1993, 2003, 2007 220, 221