Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead /

Examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crossland, Zoë (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Temas:
1800 - 1899
Ethnology > Madagascar.
Semiotics > Madagascar.
Dead > Religious aspects.
Landscapes > Symbolic aspects > Madagascar.
Merina (Malagasy people) > Religion.
Missions > Madagascar.
Ethnologie > Madagascar.
Morts > Aspect religieux.
Paysages > Aspect symbolique > Madagascar.
Mérina (Peuple de Madagascar) > Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnology.
Landscapes > Symbolic aspects.
Missions.
Religion.
Semiotics.
Madagascar > History > 19th century.
Madagascar > Religion > 19th century.
Imerina (Madagascar) > History > 19th century.
Madagascar > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Madagascar > Religion > 19e siècle.
Madagascar.
Madagascar > Imerina.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Uncertain signs and the power of the dead
  • Recognition and misrecognition in the missionary encounter
  • The signs of mission
  • Conquering the Andrantsay : familiar histories
  • Standing stones and the semeiotics of reproduction
  • Zone Rouge : encounters on the frontier
  • Epilogue : ghostly presences.

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