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From blessing to violence

Paperback • 1986 • English

From blessing to violence: History and ideology in the circumcision ritual of the Merina of Madagascar

By Maurice Bloch

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Pursuing the theme of the combination of religious joy and illumination with violence, Professor Bloch explains how, at various times, the circumcision ceremony can be a familial ritual as well as glorification of a militarist and expansionist state, or associated with anti-colonial nationalism.

Society and Social Sciences
Society and culture: general
Sociology and anthropology

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9780521314046

Published year

1986

Language

English

Original title

From blessing to violence

Format

Paperback

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