The term "Tsimihety" usually refers to one of the eighteen or twenty tribes or ethnic groups of the Republic of Madagascar; however, Tsimihety possess neither political unity nor an ideology of unity. They are best described as an association of people who have a similar history of avoiding domination and of observing various traditions that maintain their independence. The name means "those who do not cut their hair," a sign of refusal to recognize a monarch. More generally, it can be taken to identify all those people who refuse to recognize the authority of external powers presented as a hierarchy. Sizable minorities of other Malagasy groups live among Tsimihety.

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madagascar, culture

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"tsimihety" usually refers to one of the 18 or 20 tribes or ethnic groups of the republic of madagascar, counties and their cultures, tsimihety, no political unity nor an ideology of unity, people who refuse to recognize the authority of external powers

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