Antaifasy

Antaifasy ( malagasy for "tribe from the sand") is a small tribe ( Foko ) of forest farmers in Madagascar . The settlement area of the Antaifasy extended to the southeast of the island in the area of Farafangana before the 19th century , but in the 1830s many Antaifasy were enslaved on the plantations of the east coast . The Antaifasy probably split off as an independent group from the Sakalava of the west coast a few 100 years ago . They live by a very strict moral code. Their clans still have their own princes and kings today. By strict fady they set themselves apart from the other ethnic groups. Their collective burial places are in the forest.

supporting documents

↑ Larson, Pier M. 1996. “Desperately Seeking 'the Merina' (Central Madagascar): Reading Ethnonyms and Their Semantic Fields in African Identity Histories.” Journal of Southern African Studies 22: 541-560, pp. 549.
↑ Campbell, Gwyn. 1991. "An Industrial Experiment in Pre-Colonial Africa: The Case of Imperial Madagascar, 1825-1861." Journal of Southern African Studies 17: 525-559, p. 534.

Web links

http://www.madainfo.de/staemme.htm

[1] Larson, Pier M. 1996. “Desperately Seeking 'the Merina' (Central Madagascar): Reading Ethnonyms and Their Semantic Fields in African Identity Histories.” Journal of Southern African Studies 22: 541-560, pp. 549.

[2] Campbell, Gwyn. 1991. "An Industrial Experiment in Pre-Colonial Africa: The Case of Imperial Madagascar, 1825-1861." Journal of Southern African Studies 17: 525-559, p. 534.