by Maurice Bloch · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780521314046
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«From Blessing to Violence» is an anthropology essay by Maurice Bloch, published by Cambridge University Press in paperback (214 pages, in English).
Maurice Bloch analyses the circumcision rite of the Merina of Madagascar, experienced as a blessing from the ancestors though it ends in the child's violent wound. The study combines ethnography and history, analyses its ideology and shows its role in familial, state and anti-colonial contexts, with implications for anthropological theory.
Volume 61 of the Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology series. Includes bibliography (pp. 200-205) and index.
Aimed at anthropologists, historians and students of African studies and comparative religion.
