Caption

People are participating in a famadihana, a funerary tradition also known as the turning of the dead. At this time, the descendants of the deceased open the family grave, rewrap the bodies with new white shroud and dance with the bodies. On this photo, people are dancing around the entrance of the family grave. Near Ambositra, Madagascar, All of them belong to the Betsileo ethnic group, Africa

Date

Jul 09, 2016

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Franck Metois

Reference

BRK24H30_180

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No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

34,5Mb (2,3Mb) / 14,2in x 9,4in / 4256 x 2832 (300dpi)

Keywords

several bunch of multiple new newly white time entrance entrances entry dance dances photo picture photos photograph photographs dance dancing dances movement movements motion ethnic group ethnic groups gravesite gravesites grave graves tomb tombs dead body dead bodies corpse body bodies corpses death deaths descendant descendants Africa custom customs tradition traditions typical characteristic traditional traditionally dead last resting place last resting places final resting place final resting places resting place horizontal horizontally group groups mourn mourning mourns mourning grief open opening opens person persons Human being People human humans individual individuals Madagascar ethnic ethnical ethnicity East Africa Eastern Africa Four People 4 people turn turning turns turn round turning round turns round decedent decedents deceased family grave family graves family tomb Madagascan Malagasy Betsileo people Betsileo people Betsileo Ambositra burial site burial sites tomb group burial ground Photography