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- noun Plural form of
circumciser .
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Examples
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Note 83: For the etymological histories of the words used to name circumcisers whose work centered on male bodies in Ruvu communities, see chapter 4. back
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"There were two circumcisers – they moved quickly from one girl to the next, cutting their labia."
The midwife on a mission to stop female genital mutilation 2011
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Unlike the * - ganga who treated a range of conditions and only rarely conducted surgical procedures, except sometimes a superficial cut of the skin to apply medication, circumcisers only performed circumcisions.
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Diviner-doctors, birth attendants, circumcisers, and possibly others helped keep people healthy in their societies.
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Although circumcisers were not doctors in the same sense as diviner-doctors, their work was recognized as that of a specialist.
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On the question of whether or not they considered themselves medical practitioners, circumcisers "stated that they were not waganga but that they knew several types of medicine connected with [their] work."
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Having established that circumcisers were central to the physical preparation of men into fully-fledged adults, we now examine them as health practitioners in Ruvu communities.
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Likewise, the widespread practice of circumcising boys in Ruvu societies guaranteed that somewhere in the range of fifty percent of the population relied on the circumcisers 'knowledge and skills at one point in their lives.
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Additional health practitioners important in Ruvu history have included birth attendants and circumcisers.
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Hence, effective circumcisers had to have "knowledge of medicines for protection."
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