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From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar Paperback - 1986
by Maurice Bloch
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This book provides a detailed description and analysis of the Merina circumcision ritual today, offer an account of its history, and discusses the significance of his analysis for anthropological theories of ritual in general.
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- Title From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar
- Author Maurice Bloch
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Softcover Ed
- Pages 228
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, New York
- Date 1986-04-30
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780521314046 / 0521314046
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 5.78 x 0.57 in (23.37 x 14.68 x 1.45 cm)
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- Cultural Region: African
- Library of Congress subjects Merina (Malagasy people) - History, Merina (Malagasy people) - Rites and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 85011325
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.6
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. 214, ""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. Similarily, while the ritual involves a symbolic assault on women,…
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