Madagascar's Cultural Practice of Famadihana, Dancing with the Dead, Is

question 67

True/False

Madagascar's cultural practice of famadihana, dancing with the dead, is an example of what Robert Edgerton would have considered an inferior cultural practice that does not deserve the application of cultural relativism.

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