... or ancestors) and the jiny (ancestral relics), is presented in support of the Sakalava-Masikoro link. A number of rituals involving jiny and hazomanga are considered,including circumcision and adoption of a new member into a lineage. The role of women in relation to these ritual objects is historicized...

... herself replies to this question, confirming that in the absence of a normal and major heir, a woman can ‘‘keep’’ the jiny while the heir matures or until he returns to the village. So one says that the jiny are suspended; in other...

..., in the work of Manassé Esoavelomandroso (1994), Lombard (1988), and Baré (1979), and which is further advanced here by the articles of Andrew Walsh on the Antankarana and Jeanne Dina in her discussion of the hazomanga and the jiny...

... levels. Central in this regard is the jiny, the commemorative objects of cer- tain notables—a custom having Arab origins and that aspiring powers and the powerful have long exploited. William Faulkner’s phrase ‘‘the past is never...