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SUMMARY:Ancient Ethnographers and Female Genital Cutting
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DESCRIPTION:Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar\, Samuel Alexande
 r Building\, Room S.2.9\n\n\nLydia Matthews has kindly provided the foll
 owing abstract of her paper:\n\n\nFragments of Hellenistic ethnography p
 reserved in later Roman and Byzantine writers describe practices of fema
 le genital cutting (FGC) among the Jews\, Egyptians\, and so-called ‘Tro
 glodytes’. In these tales\, the ethnographers offer up strange customs a
 nd foreign bodies for a Greek audience to wonder at\, reinforcing the au
 dience’s own sense of ethnic and cultural superiority. The descriptions 
 of FGC that these accounts contain are used to define the peoples that e
 xist beyond the civilizing power of the Hellenistic kingdoms: the knowle
 dge that ethnographers offer about the regions that lie outside of the o
 ikoumene is therefore tied up with the domination of these places.
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:S.2.9\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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