ing qualitative data calls for discovering patterns within the data, can involve conversation analysis, coding, memoing, or concept mapping. Qualitative analysis "involves a continual interplay between theory and analysis" (Babbie, 2004, p. 392).
In the present study, the article by Nogotlane and Ntlangulela (2004) consisted of interviews in which conversation analysis took place. This is an ethnomethodological strategy which explored interview results with a number of initiates or young males experiencing ritual circumcision and the traditional attendants who either perform the circumcision or provide after care to initiates. The study meets Babbie's (2004) criteria for conversation analysis or a meticulous analysis of the details of an interview based upon a complete transcript that provides data depth and facilitates analysis via coded units, themes or topics.
Specifically, Mogotlane and Ntlangulela (2004) drew upon interviews as well as statistical data obtained from hospitals in the target region while simultaneously offering a review of relevant literature on the subject of morbidity and mortality associated with male circumcision and particularly with ritual male circumcision as practiced by tribal groups in South Africa. Circumcision is revealed in other studies as a controversial surgical procedure that is administered to males (Circumcision debate 2000). More often than not, at least in Western cultures, circumcision occurs shortly after birth (Kinkade, Meadows, and Garcia-Trujillo 2005). Practiced with respect to routine medical standards of care and surgical technique, the morbidity associated with c
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