Growing Up Sexually

 

 

BAJA (Sudan)

 

 

 

 

IndexAfricaSudan → Baja

(Nuba, Shilluk, Bari, Dinka, Baja, Kuku, Dogons, Yoruba, Mandari; ®Zande)


Tessmann (1934b, I:p204)[1] did not note the “Mann-und-Frau-Spiel” in Baja children. Instead, they play in separation and boys are noticed, when the sexes do meet, to haunt and trash the girls. The Baja tend to regard children as innocent (ignorant), probably much contrary to facts (1937, II:p112)[2].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: Sept 2004

 



[1] Tessmann, G. (1934b/1937) Die Baja: Ein Negerstamm im Mittleren Sudan: Materielle und Seelische Kultur. Stuttgart: Strecker & Schröder. 2 vols.

[2] Ibid.