From Blessing to Violence: History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar, Maurice Bloch's 1986 study from Cambridge University Press, is a major scholarly analysis of Merina circumcision ritual and its ideological history. Its strength is that Bloch conducted direct fieldwork among the Merina and this is a peer-reviewed academic monograph from a leading anthropologist. Its limit is that its ethnographic and historical focus is the Merina of Madagascar specifically, not circumcision ritual generally.
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Reliability tier 1: a peer reviewed academic monograph from Cambridge University Press, based on the author's own direct fieldwork, a leading anthropologist's focused study of one community's ritual. NotesScholarly study of history and ideology in the Merina circumcision ritual of Madagascar, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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AuthorMaurice Bloch
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication Year1986
Source TypeEthnography
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