The possessed and the dispossessed : spirits, identity, and power in a Madagascar migrant town /

"This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural community demonstrates that spirit possession reflects in microcosm many of the contradictions of daily life in a plantation economy. Female spirit mediums - a group heretofore assumed to be marginal - are in fact powerful and honored heale...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1996, ©1993.
Colección:Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ; no. 37.
Temas:
Sakalava (Malagasy people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Sakalava (Malagasy people) > Religion.
Sakalava (Malagasy people) > Social conditions.
Spirit possession > Madagascar > Ambanja.
Ancestor worship > Madagascar > Ambanja.
Sakalava (Peuple de Madagascar) > Rites et cérémonies.
Sakalava (Peuple de Madagascar) > Religion.
Sakalava (Peuple de Madagascar) > Conditions sociales.
Possession par les esprits > Madagascar > Ambanja.
Morts > Culte > Madagascar > Ambanja.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Ancestor worship
Sakalava (Malagasy people) > Religion
Sakalava (Malagasy people) > Social conditions
Spirit possession
Ambanja (Madagascar) > Religious life and customs.
Madagascar > Ambanja
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Possession, Identity, and Power: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
  • Critical Approaches to the Study of Affliction
  • Investigating Possession: Social Change, Marginality, and Religious Experience
  • Logic and Methods of Inquiry
  • pt. I. Historic, Political-Economic, and Social Levels of Experience
  • 2. Political Economy of the Sambirano
  • Ambanja, a Plantation Community
  • Economic and Political History of the Region
  • Local Power and Reactions to Colonialism
  • 3. National and Local Factions: The Nature of Polyculturalism in Ambanja
  • National Factions: Regionalism and Cultural Stereotypes
  • Social and Cultural Divisions in Ambanja
  • Effects of Polyculturalism
  • 4. Tera-Tany and Vahiny: Insiders and Outsiders
  • Migrant Stories
  • Patterns of Association and Means for Incorporation
  • pt. II. Spirit Possession in the Sambirano
  • 5. World of the Spirits
  • ^ Dynamics of Tromba in Daily Life
  • Possession Experience
  • Other Members of the Spirit World
  • 6. Sacred Knowledge and Local Power: Tromba and the Sambirano Economy
  • Tromba as Ethnohistory
  • Tromba, Wage Labor, and Economic Independence
  • Tromba and Collective Power in the Sambirano
  • 7. Spirit Mediumship and Social Identity
  • Selfhood and Personhood in the Context of Possession
  • Turning Outsiders into Insiders: Mediums' Social Networks and Personal Relationships
  • Miasa ny Tromba: Mediumship as Work
  • pt. III. Conflicts of Town Life
  • 8. Problems and Conflicts of Town Life: The Adult World
  • Malagasy Concepts of Healing
  • Sickness and Death
  • Work and Success
  • Love and Money, Wives and Mistresses
  • 9. Social World of Children
  • Possessed Youth of Ambanja
  • Disorder of a Fragmented World
  • Children and Social Change
  • 10. Exorcising the Spirits: The Alternative Therapeutics of Protestantism
  • Sakalava Perceptions of Possession and Madness.

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