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Studying people, societies, beliefs and cultures in all places across all human history builds up knowledge from social, biological, humanities and physical science to be employed to set solutions of human problems. There are diverse perspectives of anthropology such as, cultural, linguistics, biological or physical and medical anthropology (American Anthropology Association 2013). Medical anthropology considers cultural and social conventions that contribute to health consequently; it studies cultural and biological factors and concepts which influence health and wellbeing. One of oldest universal inherited practices across the world is male circumcision. Reasons for the practice of circumcision vary from community to community and from time to time. It is one of the interesting anthropological issues which is very common in Egyptian society. It has been performed in the ancient Egypt thousands of years ago. They practiced circumcision for spiritual, hygienic purposes that later it showed up relation to health improvement. As a religious custom, it was universal among Muslims and Jewish 2000 B.C with the prophet Abraham. Along with the new discovery of North American, it was observed that most of the natives and pre Columbian were circumcised but, the more primitive people were not (Circinfo 2013). In the last few years of 19th century, circumcision has been a controversial issue among researchers when variety of health benefits were recognized by Peter Remondino1891so, it spread across the United States as routine practice (Circinfo 2013). Beside health benefits there were two reasons behind the popularity of male circumcision since ancient time which is religious and hygienic rationales. On the other side, scientists see tha...

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...nally, all people said that child- mother relationship did not get affected after circumcision. In Egyptian society male Circumcision is major religious practice and social traditions for Muslim and Christian Egyptians.

The survey confirmed that circumcision had roots in ancient Egypt and the majority of Egyptian practice circumcision as a religious tradition. It also reflects how the ancient civilizations have an impact on the social traditions of the Egyptian society. Also, results confirmed that circumcision has to some extent a positive impact on health. Circumcision is commonly known in the present Egyptian society and usually done during the infancy period. Circumcision’s benefits outweigh its harm effect and complications of the procedure are rare, minor and treatable, so male circumcision is encouraged due to its role as preventative function (Sykes 2006).