Entrée Ancestors, power, and history in Madagascar
Mots élémentaires history ; Madagascar
Partie du discours nom propre (titre de livre)
Auteur Middleton Karen
Editions 1999. Pages: 360.
Description In this edited volume, regional specialists reassess the significance of ancestors for changing relations of power, emerging identities, and local historical consciousness. Case-studies include The Royal Bath of 1817 (Pier Larson), Succession in an Urbanized Sakalava Kingdom (Lesley Sharp), The Antankarala Ritual Cycle (Michael Lambek, Andrew Walsh), Nineteenth-Century Norwegian Missionary Culture (Karina Hestad Skeie), Sacrifice on the East Coast (Jennifer Cole), Violence among the Zafimaniry (Maurice Bloch), and Circumcision and Colonialism in the South (Karen Middleton). Three further chapters present original research on slavery, memory, and cultural politics in the Highlands (Sandra Evers, David Graeber, Françoise Raison-Jourde).
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Whenever Karembola talks of this "difficult," extended mourning, they explain that the mpisoro is a "great person" (ondate be) demanding "great homage" (fiasiañe be) of those he owns.
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