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Malagasy Memories

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Ro-patsa

In Madagaskar wordt bij de geboorte van een kind familie, buren en vrienden uitgenodigd voor de Ro-patsa. Dit verwijst naar een gerecht waarin veel hele kleine gedroogde garnalen (de patsa) zijn verwerkt. Tegenwoordig wordt het gebruikt om de mensen uit te nodigen voor een kraamvisite en te vragen om een kleine bijdrage ter ondersteuning van de uitgebreide familie. De Ro-patsa, de garnalensoep dus, heeft volgens de malagassische overlevering een stimulerend effect op de borstvoeding van de moeder. Tegenwoordig is die stimulans effectiever met de moderne opvatting van de Ro-patsa.

In Madagascar after the birth of a baby, family, friends and neighbours are invited for the Ro-patsa. This refers to a dish in which many small dried shrimps (Ro-patsa) are used. But today it is used just to invite people for a gathering for the new born, and to contribute a little bit to the extended family. According to Malagasy believes, the Ro-patsa has a stimulating effect to the mother’s breastfeeding. Nowadays this effect is likely to be more effective using the modern approach of ro-patsa.

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time lapse

Now it's almost done. This is one of the last of these images, with this view. Anyone knows a place to live in Rotterdam??? Please let me know...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhWC0q3mO9s

nice pics from Mada

http://www.riva-press.com/det.php?id=5&groid=1282

Famadihana

Back in Madagascar the family here had a big ceremony to celebrate. The grandparents that passed away some years ago were reunited at last in a new tomb build by their children. 4 zebu's had to be killed, and 40 liters of toka gasy (home brew rum) had to be finished. 2 Nights of partying until daylight, dancing in front of the 2 bodies and lots of speeches to remember the ancestors. And then after 7 days of arranging, travelling, drinking, waiting, eating rice, sleeping in the house of the ancestors, fighting zebu's, eating unexpected parts of them, and dancing with a body after 5 years in the ground, we could join the two in the new tomb. Lots of impressions, not easily caught in picture, film or word. Check the link for a video of one day of the ceremony. On the picture the family and the people of the surrounding villages are digging around 4 meters to get to the entrance of this classical tomb where grandmother was burried.