{"id":352,"date":"2019-04-02T10:01:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour-operator-madagascar.com\/en\/?p=352"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:49:07","slug":"the-sambatra-circumcision-in-mananjary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tour-operator-madagascar.com\/en\/the-sambatra-circumcision-in-mananjary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sambatra circumcision in Mananjary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Antambahoaka in the south-eastern part of Madagascar, specifically in Mananjary, this cultural event called \u00ab\u00a0Sambatra\u00a0\u00bb celebrated 4 weeks and is held every 7 years. The sambatra ceremony consists of gathering hundreds of little boys for the collective circumcision, a passage to become brave and to integrate in the community of men. They shed no tears so as not to disappoint or offend the gods.<\/p>\n<p id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"text\" data-placeholder=\"Traduction\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwj_1K_XtoaRAxV5d0EAHXpKClkQ3ewLegQIDBAV\" aria-label=\"Texte traduit\u00a0: The next Sambatra circumcision event or ceremony will be in 2028.\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">The next Sambatra circumcision event or ceremony will be in 2028.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guaranteed departure, Combined tour with \u201cThe highland and the fce train, the retro\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Antambahoaka in the south-eastern part of Madagascar, specifically in Mananjary, this cultural event called \u00ab\u00a0Sambatra\u00a0\u00bb celebrated 4 weeks and is held every 7 years. The sambatra ceremony consists of gathering hundreds of little boys for the collective circumcision, a passage to become brave and to integrate in the community of men. They shed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[529,532,530,531,537,538,536,4101,4103,4100,534,535,533,4102],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe","tag-antambahoaka","tag-antambahoaka-cultural-event","tag-antambahoaka-culture","tag-antambahoaka-event","tag-collective-circumcision-of-sambatra","tag-malagasy-traditional-ceremony","tag-mananjary-sambatra-ceremony","tag-next-sambatra-ceremony","tag-next-sambatra-circomcision","tag-next-sambatra-event","tag-period-of-sambatra","tag-sambatra-ceremony","tag-sambatra-event","tag-sambatra-next-period"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tour-operator-madagascar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tour-operator-madagascar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tour-operator-madagascar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tour-operator-madagascar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tour-operator-madagascar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/tour-operator-madagascar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"http:\/\/tour-operator-madagascar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tour-operator-madagascar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tour-operator-madagascar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tour-operator-madagascar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}