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• October 1, 2010 – 12:42 pm

  FrankFocus photo reportages

  Famadihana – Turning of the Bones Famadihana (reburial) is a funerary tradition of the Malagasy people in Madagascar. Known as the turning of the bones, people bring forth the bodies of their ancestors from the family crypts and rewrap them in fresh cloth, then dance with the corpses around the tomb to live music. Photo [...]

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  • onder: African Lens, bull jump, Demotix, Ethiopia, famadihana, fotografie, Madagascar, photography, reportage, reportages, VII, VII VISIONAIRES
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• August 11, 2010 – 1:25 pm

  Hamar ‘bull jump’ – a photo series

  The Hamar is a tribal people in southwestern Ethiopia. They live in Hamer Bena woreda (or district), a fertile part of the Omo River valley, in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR). They are largely pastoralists, so their culture places a high value on cattle. The Hamar people [...]

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  • onder: bull jump, ceremony, Ethiopia, Hamar, leaping of the bulls, photography, rite of passage, tribe
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