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Description: Winter in Madagascar is a season that sees two traditional rituals of passage – famadihana (the ‘turning of the bones’), and rites of circumcision.nnEvery five to ten years, it is the custom for many Malagasy families to exhume their deceased relatives, wrap them in new shrouds, and dance with their bodies before returning them to ancestral crypts. The ceremonies of famadihana take place in winter as some believe that the dead are cold, so need new shrouds. Deceased ancestors are gone but
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