From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar by Maurice Bloch

From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar

Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology (Paperback)

Maurice Bloch

228 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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The circumcision ritual of the Merina of Madagascar is seen by them primarily as a blessing, involving the transfer of the love and concern of the ancestors of their descendants. Yet the ritual ends in an act of ciolent wounding of the child. Simi...

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