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Residents of Madagascar Carry Corpses With Them and Triumphs in a Tradition Known as Famadihana. PHOTO/ File
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Famadihana: Madagascar’s Tradition of Exhuming the Dead to Dance and Rebury Them
Blake Otieno January 2, 2026

In Madagascar’s central highlands, families periodically gather not to mourn the dead, but to celebrate them. The ritual, known as famadihana, literally translated as “the turning of the bones,” involves exhuming the remains of ancestors, rewrapping them in fresh cloth, and dancing with them before returning them to their family tombs. Far from being horrific,

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