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Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte : Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession /
On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a signif...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Anthropological Horizons
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Stylistic Conventions and Conundrums
- Dramatis Personae
- Part I: Introductions
- 1. Knowledge and Hubris
- 2. Locating Knowledge in Mayotte: Structure, History, and Practice
- 3. Village Organization and the Distribution of Knowledge
- Part II: The Social Organization of Textual Knowledge
- 4. Islam: The Perspective from the Path
- 5. Educating Citizens: The Reproduction of Textual Knowledge
- 6. Islamic Experts: Practice and Power
- Part III. Counterpractices: Cosmology and the Ins and Outs of Sorcery
- 7. Knowledge with Power: The Discipline of Cosmology
- 8. Knowledge and Antipractice: Committing Sorcery
- 9. Removing Sorcery: Committing (to) the Cure
- Part IV. Embodied Knowledge and the Practice of Spirit Mediums
- 10. The Reproduction of Possession: Gaining a Voice
- 11. Tumbu and Mohedja: Excerpts from the Healers' Practice
- 12. Granaries, Turtles, and the Whole Damn Thing
- Epilogue, 1992
- Notes
- A Short Glossary of Words Commonly Used in the Text
- Bibliography
- Index