TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crossland,Zoë
TI  - Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar: material signs and traces of the dead 
SN  - 9781461955047
AV  - GN661 .A534 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Madagascar
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Dead
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Landscapes
KW  - Symbolic aspects
KW  - Merina (Malagasy people)
KW  - Religion
KW  - Missions
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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