From blessing to violence
Subtitle: history and ideology in the circumcision ritual of the Merina of Madagascar
By: Maurice Bloch.
Series: Cambridge studies in social anthropology -- 61; Cambridge studies in social anthropology -- no. 61.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Merina (Malagasy people) -- Rites and ceremonies.; Circumcision.; Merina (Malagasy people) -- History.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-205).