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==Discussion==
The Madhiban were historically hunters, but now engage in occupations like [[leather work|technology work]] ([[shoemaking|skils people]]). They also are the traditional circumcision performers for both males,<ref>{{cite book|author=David F. Horrobin|title=The Somali, in "A Guide to Kenya and Northern Tanzania"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DnrwCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA30|year=2012|publisher=Springer |isbn=978-94-011-7129-8| pages=29–30}}</ref><ref name="archive.org"/> and females in the Somali society.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Wright | first=Jane | title=Female genital mutilation: an overview | journal=Journal of Advanced Nursing | publisher=Wiley-Blackwell | volume=24 | issue=2 | year=1996 | pages=251–259 | doi=10.1046/j.1365-2648.1996.01934.x | pmid=8858427 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-1-4020-4916-3_4 |chapter=At the Roots of Ethnic Female Genital Modification: Preliminary Report |title=Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision |year=2006 |last1=Gallo |first1=Pia Grassivaro |last2=Tita |first2=Eleanora |last3=Viviani |first3=Franco |pages=49–55 |isbn=978-1-4020-4915-6 }}</ref> These professions have traditionally been considered dirty, and the Madhiban have been a part of the ''sab'' or lower [[caste]]s as opposed to the ''aji'' or upper castes.<ref name="Jama">{{cite book|last1=Jama|first1=Hassan Ali|title=Who Cares about Somalia: Hassan's Ordeal; Reflections on a Nation's Future|date=2005|publisher=Verlag Hans Schiler|isbn=3899300750|pages=97–98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lAyeNqKK7bQC|accessdate=23 September 2014}}</ref>
According to Lee Gunderson, Dennis Murphy Odo and Reginald D'Silva, the Midgan have traditionally been treated as a low caste, scorned and reviled.<ref name="GundersonOdo2013p98">{{cite book|author1=Lee Gunderson|author2=Dennis Murphy Odo|author3=Reginald D'Silva|title=ESL Literacy Instruction |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nak3AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA98 |year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-05238-6|page=98}}</ref> A Midgan-Madiban has been deemed as polluting and therefore avoided as a taboo in the Somali society.<ref name="GundersonOdo2013p98"/><ref name="Leonard2013p255">{{cite book|author=Thomas M. Leonard|title=Encyclopedia of the Developing World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gc2NAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA255 |year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-20508-9|page=255}}</ref><ref name=enogaboye/>
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