From blessing to violence : history and ideology in the circumcision ritual of the Merina of Madagascar / Maurice Bloch.
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...
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1986.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in social anthropology ;
no. 61. |
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