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

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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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