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Betafo ("many roofs) is a village and fokontany in the district of
All Africa
/ref> His book, '' Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar'', contains a detailed recounting of the village's oral traditions, full of stories of scandalous murders, magical battles, forbidden romances, and spiteful ancestors sending fires and hailstorms from their tombs.
Arivonimamo
Arivonimamo is a city (commune urbaine) in Itasy Region, in the Central Highlands of Madagascar.
Arivonimamo is connected by the National Road No.1 to Antananarivo (50 km in the east) and Tsiroanomandidy (west). The Antananarivo international ...
, in the region of Itasy
Itasy is a region in central Madagascar. It borders Analamanga region in northeast,
Vakinankaratra in south and Bongolava in northwest. The capital of the region is Miarinarivo, and the population was 897,962 in 2018. It is the smallest of all the ...
, Madagascar.
Population
The village's inhabitants are said to be divided between descendants of nobles (''andriana'') and descendants of former slaves (''olona mainty'', literally "black people"). This aspect was the subject of a study by anthropologistDavid Graeber
David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books '' Debt: The First 5,000 Years'' (2011) and ''Bullshit Jobs ...
./ref> His book, '' Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar'', contains a detailed recounting of the village's oral traditions, full of stories of scandalous murders, magical battles, forbidden romances, and spiteful ancestors sending fires and hailstorms from their tombs.
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