Famidihana

Articles on Famidihana (body-turning) including those from: Chronicle, Ny Ranovelona, Famadihana, Teny Soa, Vokovokomanga, Vaovao; typescript by J. Ramambasoa.

Archive & Special Collections PP MS 63/03/074 Open

Order number: PP MS 63, Hardyman, Box 54
Date(s) of creation: 1939 - 1971
Level: File
Format: Archive           
Subjects:
Funerary rites

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title Famidihana
scb_date_creation 1939 - 1971
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scb_admin_history Famadihana is a funerary tradition of the Malagasy people in Madagascar. Known as the turning of the bones, people bring forth the bodies of their ancestors from the family crypts and rewrap them in fresh cloth, then dance with the corpses around the tomb to live music. [Source: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famadihana, 13/3/2013]
description Articles on Famidihana (body-turning) including those from: Chronicle, Ny Ranovelona, Famadihana, Teny Soa, Vokovokomanga, Vaovao; typescript by J. Ramambasoa.
scb_access_status Open
language English
French
Malagasy
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French
Malagasy
scb_scripts_material Latin
scb_file_number 74
scb-callnumber-first Funerary rites
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