Caption

Young woman participating in a famadihana. This funerary tradition is 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, the woman is seen holding the body of one of her ancestors. Near Ambositra, Madagascar. This tradition is followed by the Betsileo ethnic group

Date

Jul 09, 2016

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Franck Metois

Reference

BRK25A70_437

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No

Property release

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Rights managed

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34,5Mb (2,7Mb) / 14,2in x 9,4in / 4256 x 2832 (300dpi)

Keywords

several bunch of multiple new newly white young young festival festivals dance dances photo picture photos photograph photographs dance dancing dances movement movements motion adult adults woman women women's woman's womans ethnic group ethnic groups ancestor ancestors forebear 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 female females event events last resting place last resting places final resting place final resting places resting place horizontal horizontally group groups hold holding holds mourn mourning mourns mourning grief open opening opens tribe tribes tribal ethnology ethnologies person persons Human being People human humans individual individuals Madagascar ethnologic ethnological remembrance remembrances commemoration commemorating memory memories commemorate adult ethnic ethnical ethnicity East Africa Eastern Africa two people 2 people two persons turn turning turns turn round turning round turns round decedent decedents deceased family grave family graves family tomb Madagascan Malagasy young woman young women young adult woman young adult women Betsileo people Betsileo people Betsileo Ambositra burial site burial sites tomb group burial ground young adult young adults