Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

Extracted from: Hemispheres: studies on cultures and societies (Warsaw) 7, 1992, pages 115-119. The Somba (Betammaribe, Tamberma) of northern Bénin still practice scarification of the face and torso, ...

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