Celebrating With The Corpses Of Their Ancestors Zoo Quest to Madagascar BBC
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Date: 2020-08-24
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TheStockwell
I respect Attenborough's presentation of how this is just the way things were done - and are still done? - in Madagascar. On one hand, he subtly expresses ambivalence at how these ceremonies wipe out a family's finances. On the other hand, he points out the social and cultural expectations that demand it - and the stigma attached to NOT doing it. Attenborough's comments raise questions - and then answers them.
This is how we learn things. Again, thank you BBC.
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I respect Attenborough's presentation of how this is just the way things were done - and are still done? - in Madagascar. On one hand, he subtly expresses ambivalence at how these ceremonies wipe out a family's finances. On the other hand, he points out the social and cultural expectations that demand it - and the stigma attached to NOT doing it. Attenborough's comments raise questions - and then answers them.
This is how we learn things. Again, thank you BBC.
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dewinthemorning
If this procedure is done in order to entertain the spirits of the dead, why are the dead bodies brought out? They did say that the spirit gets (is) out of the body and travels about.
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If this procedure is done in order to entertain the spirits of the dead, why are the dead bodies brought out? They did say that the spirit gets (is) out of the body and travels about.
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