ISBN:
0-12-809150-9
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978-0-12-809150-0
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xi, 241 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln
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Illustrationen, Karten
Serie:
Seminar Studies in Anthropology 1
DDC:
301.29/69/1
Schlagwort(e):
Madagaskar Merina
;
Totenkult
;
Begräbnissitte
;
Soziales Leben
;
Soziale Organisation
;
Verwandtschaft
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prt 1 The background to Merina rural society -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The society of the ancestors --3. Social organization of the Ambatomanoina district -- Part 2. The link with the tanindrazana -- 4. Tomb and tanindrazana -- 5. Funeral and famadihana -- Part 3 The break with the tanindrazana -- 6. Marriage -- 7. The break with the tanindrazana -- 8. Social change and descent -- Glossary of Malagasy words -- References -- Index
Anmerkung:
" The sucbctance of this book was earlier presented at the University of Camcridge as thesis". (Acknowledgements)
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Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge,Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1967 unter dem Titel The significance of tombs and ancestral villages for rural Merina social organisation
