seclusion lodge

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   A traditional dwelling placed apart from a community, tribe etc., for the use of those…

   A traditional dwelling placed apart from a community, tribe etc., for the use of those under ceremonial or taboo restrictions.

   • The huts were seclusion lodges, where we were to live isolated from society.
   • The seclusion lodge houses circumcision initiates, keeping them separate from the rest of the community.
   • The birth lodge, the puberty rite lodge, the menstrual seclusion lodge, as well as the family dwelling built and owned by the woman, show that previously the Plateau-built environment was almost exclusively under women's purview.

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