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http://thisdarkmatter.com/uncategorized/yougonnaeatthat/
http://www.academia.edu/3632663/They_Eat_Your_Ash_to_Save_Your_Soul_Yanoma
mi_Death_Culture
http://blog.sevenponds.com/cultural-perspectives/yanomami-death-ritual-of-
endocannibalism
Sati is described as a
Hindu custom in India in
which the widow was burnt
to ashes on her dead husband's pyre. Basically the custom of
Sati was believed to be a voluntary Hindu act in which the
woman voluntary decides to end her life with her husband after
his death. But there were many incidences in which the women
were forced to commit Sati, sometimes even dragged against her
wish to the lighted pyre.
http://listverse.com/2010/07/17/10-incredibly-painful-rites-
of-initiation/
http://www.larskrutak.com/making-boys-into-men-the-skin-
cutting-ritual-of-the-kaningara-tribe-of-papua-new-guinea/
There are many suggestions
for the origin of “Foot
binding”. One story relates
that during the Shang Dynasty,
the concubine Daji, who was said
to have a clubfoot. He asked the
Emperor have a Foot binding
mandatory for all girls in court
so that her own feet would be
the standard of Beauty and Elegance.
Advantages
Foot binding will make your feet smaller and prevent from
growing up.
Family honour.
To be able to dominate women.
To be more beautiful.
Disadvantages
The practice of foot binding not only physically crippled
women, but also crippled them mentally.
This forced a woman to focus her weight on her lower body
putting pressure on her pelvis and eventually lowering it
The girls could barely walk straight.
The toes would be curled downwards and inwards.
Infection was the most common ailment of bound feet.
Inevitably disease followed infection.
Chinese Girl with Bound Feet. The Virtual Museum of the City
of San Francisco http://www.sfmuseum.org/chin/foot.html.
her husband once his guests have gone13. Thus, a woman who
does not wear her lip-plate when she is expected to is more
prone to reproval and subject to scrutiny by men and women.
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/entertainment/Lifestyle-
Why-the-Mursi-women-have-a-lip-plate-481284
https://culturalbeauty.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/the-lip-plate/
http://www.medicalbag.com/body-modification/pucker-up-lip-
plating-still-in-vogue-in-remote-tribal-
villages/article/472684/
https://tatring.com/piercing-types/Have-Mursi-on-the-Lip-Plate
http://www.mursi.org/introducing-the-
mursi/pdf/latosky.pdf/view/
at all times (the east side is only for “men” and the
http://listverse.com/2010/07/17/10-incredibly-painful-rites-
of-initiation/
http://www.larskrutak.com/making-boys-into-men-the-skin-
cutting-ritual-of-the-kaningara-tribe-of-papua-new-guinea/
There are many suggestions
for the origin of “Foot
binding”. One story relates
that during the Shang Dynasty,
the concubine Daji, who was said
to have a clubfoot. He asked the
Emperor have a Foot binding
mandatory for all girls in court
so that her own feet would be
the standard of Beauty and
Elegance.
Foot binding was the custom of applying tight binding to
the feet of young girls to modify the shape of the foot.The
practice possibly originated among Five Dynasties and Ten
Kingdoms period in Imperial China (10th / 11th century), then
became popular during the Song Dynasty and eventually spreads
to all social classes.
Advantages
Foot binding will make your feet smaller and prevent from
growing up.
Family honour.
To be able to dominate women.
To be more beautiful.
Disadvantages
The practice of foot binding not only physically crippled
women, but also crippled them mentally.
This forced a woman to focus her weight on her lower body
putting pressure on her pelvis and eventually lowering it
The girls could barely walk straight.
The toes would be curled downwards and inwards.
Infection was the most common ailment of bound feet.
Inevitably disease followed infection.
The places where FGM is commonly practiced have not been able
to create the conditions necessary for the practice to cease,
unlike China. However, if socioeconomic conditions can
improve, female genital mutilation might become less common as
time goes on.
Chinese Girl with Bound Feet. The Virtual Museum of the City
of San Francisco http://www.sfmuseum.org/chin/foot.html.