Citation

Fitting W. Actual. Odontostomatol. (Paris) 1989; 42(166): 191-203.

Vernacular Title

Les mutilations dentaires dans le cadre des mutilations rituelles.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Editions Julien Prelat)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2576840

Abstract

Study of the motivations and description of ritual dental mutilation techniques. All initiation rites have one thing in common: blood must flow. Some tribes give the choice between circumcision or the pulling of one or several teeth. Proposal of analysis of the transfer in modern life of the primitive "obsession of the borders" described by ethnologists.

Language: fr