Foko
Foko ( Malagasy , German for " ethnicities , tribes ") are mainlyethnic groups residenton the island of Madagascar with their own collective identity , who practice a common ancestor cult and are assigned to a spatially limited area. The folk names of the Foko are often derived from the peculiarities of the settlement areas of their members. The individual focus comes from different waves of immigration from the past 15 centuries.
The Malagasy state officially recognizes 18 ethnic groups:
| In the highlands:
In the East: |
In the south:
In the West: In the North: |
literature
- Conrad P. Kottak: Cultural Adaptation, Kinship, and Descent in Madagascar. In: Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. Volume 27, No. 2, summer 1971 (English; anthropology professor; doi: 10.1086 / soutjanth.27.2.3629236 ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unknown author: PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) p. 8. No version found on April 12, 2020.
- ^ Pier M. Larson: Desperately Seeking "the Merina" (Central Madagascar): Reading Ethnonyms and Their Semantic Fields in African Identity Histories. In: Journal of Southern African Studies. Volume 22, No. 4, December 1996, pp. 541-560, here p. 549 (English; Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison ; doi: 10.1080 / 03057079608708511 ).
- ^ République Française, Commission des Recours des Réfugiés (ed.): Note d'actualité - Madagascar: Bilan de la situation politique récente. Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), May 24, 2007, p. 1 (French; PDF: 163 kB, 9 pages on commission-refugies.fr); Quote: "La communauté malgache est composée" officiellement "de 18 ethnies principales, chacune parlant sa variété linguistique de malgache: merina, betsileo, betsimisaraka, sakalava, etc."