| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is one of the major issues in Africa. Despite powerful global and national movements for abolishing it, many groups have maintained the practice. In this presentation I would describe the dynamic process underlying the changes in FGM/C and clarify the gap between global discourse and local recognition by focusing on the newly created “cutting styles,” which involve less mutilation than the traditional style.
The newly invented kati-kati style now has become popular among the secondary school girls which represents their new womanhood identities. They do not view choices about circumcision as involving decisions between “right or wrong”, “good or bad”, “healthy or unhealthy” and “safe or unsafe” but rather as ways to express their positions to the “Western modernized world” or to express their own identities in the context of local tradition.
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