How big is family type this socialisation. The masculine ideas that birth Gikuyu male identity plays in a different social sphere, in most of our experience. The environment (social-econ class and space) is a big factor in mediating this. I am not sure about nature of relations.
With all due respect this information is on google scholar but I know the payments to allow passage were made to the council of elders. People centre circumcision as the rite of passage because it is the only one that has survived. see next tweet.
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There was a rite to pass into true childhood at age 5. A rite to pass into young warrior (circumcision), a rite to become a young man who was allowed to marry and father children (bloody expensive), a rite to "age" a man whose kids were of "circumcisable"...
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A rite for a man whose children were now men with their own families...at this crap cost material things. NO to mention that there were also rites for girls and women. Just staying alive and functioning appropriately in society in the precolonial context was bloody expensive.
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Lol. I didn't ask cause I don't have google scholar. But honestly even if google scholar didn't exist, folk knowledge is a 'living thing'. Let's also not forget that we live the experience in different form.
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