Betafo, Arivonimamo

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Betafo ("many roofs) is a village and in the district of Arivonimamo, in the region of Itasy, 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 anthropologist David Graeber.^[1] 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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