Bara villagers. Impossible to have a candid shot. The Bara people are a Malagasy ethnic group living in the southern part of the central plateaus of Madagascar. The Bara are the largest of the island's zebu-herding clans and have historically lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle. Bara society is highly patriarchal and endogamy and polygamy are practiced among some Bara sub-clans. Young men practice cattle rustling to prove their manhood before marriage