Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead / Zoë Crossland.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781461955047
- 9781139565882
- GN661 .A534 2014
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) | G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE | Non-fiction | GN661.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn867630764 |
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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