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

By:

Crossland, Zoë [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781461955047
9781139565882

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

GN661 .A534 2014

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Contents:

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.

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

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

Includes bibliographies 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 semeiotics of reproduction -- Zone Rouge : encounters on the frontier -- Epilogue : ghostly presences.

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