[Tooth mutilation in the scope of ritual mutilation].
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.
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D000349:Africa; D002562:Ceremonial Behavior; D002944:Circumcision, Male; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012652:Self Mutilation; D013653:Tattooing; D014081:Tooth Extraction; D018677:Tooth Injuries
Les mutilations dentaires dans le cadre des mutilations rituelles.