Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead /
Zoë Crossland.
- New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages) : illustrations
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.
Examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history.