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Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead
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- Creator
- Zoë Crossland
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781107036093, 9781139565882, 1107036097
- OCLC
- ocn813938881
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-369) and index.
- 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 semeiosis of reproduction -- Zone Rouge : encounters on the frontier -- Epilogue : ghostly presences
Subjects
- Ethnology -- Madagascar.
- Semiotics -- Madagascar.
- Dead -- Religious aspects.
- Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects -- Madagascar.
- Merina (Malagasy people) -- Religion.
- Missions -- Madagascar.
- Madagascar -- History -- 19th century.
- Madagascar -- Religion -- 19th century.
- Imerina (Madagascar) -- History -- 19th century.