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[T]he birth process is considered so polluting by men that a father will not touch his new-born child for a period of about a month. It is significant that he relaxes his avoidance about the same time as the child ceases to be called riegrm, blood.

• Source: Hutchinson, Sharon Elaine. “Relations between the sexes among the Nuer: 1930.” Africa -- Vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 371-387, 1980.
• Culture: Nuer
• Location: Africa