Ancestors Power And History In Madagascar
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Ancestors Power And History In Madagascar
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Author : Karen Middleton
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-07-03
Ancestors Power And History In Madagascar written by Karen Middleton and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-03 with Architecture categories.
This collection of essays by regional specialists draws on a wide range of ethnographic and historical data to reassess the significance of the ancestors for changing relations of power and emerging identities in Madagascar.
Madagascar
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Author : John Mack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Madagascar written by John Mack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Social Science categories.
Water Into Bones
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Author : Erin K. Nourse
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2025-03-04
Water Into Bones written by Erin K. Nourse and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-04 with Social Science categories.
Water into Bones explores the spiritual importance of water in Madagascar. Families in northern Madagascar conceptualize water as a spiritual realm where magical creatures and some ancestors live, and believe that infants are born with a special connection to the spirit world that makes them "still full of water" (mbola rano) and lacking bones. Over the course of their lives, the water is transformed into bone, and lives end as entombed bones, which symbolize their legacy as ancestors and become objects of their descendants' care and remembrance. Author Erin Nourse examines the ways that Malagasy women in the northern port city of Diégo Suarez actively enable their infants to acquire "bones" and establish belonging within their communities. Navigating diverse social environments that enable them to draw from various religious, ethnic, and familial traditions to welcome babies into their families, Malagasy mothers secure their children's status as distinctive individuals who are also firmly grounded in their ancestral legacies. Water into Bones reveals the vast possibilities for creating community, identity, and sacred power through the personal experiences of northern Malagasy women during pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood.
The Necessity Of Forgetting
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Author : Jennifer Cole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Necessity Of Forgetting written by Jennifer Cole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) categories.
Ancestral Encounters In Highland Madagascar
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Author : Zoë Crossland
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-17
Ancestral Encounters In Highland Madagascar written by Zoë Crossland and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-17 with Social Science categories.
Nineteenth-century highland Madagascar was a place inhabited by the dead as much as the living. Ghosts, ancestors and the possessed were important historical actors alongside local kings and queens, soldiers, traders and missionaries. This book considers the challenges that such actors pose for historical accounts of the past and for thinking about questions of presence and representation. How were the dead made present, and how were they recognized or not? In attending to these multifarious encounters of the nineteenth century, how might we reflect on the ways in which our own history-writing makes the dead present? To tackle these questions, Zoë Crossland tells an anthropological history of highland Madagascar from a perspective rooted in archaeology and Peircean semiotics, as well as in landscape study, oral history and textual sources.
Questions Of Anthropology
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Author : Rita Astuti
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-08
Questions Of Anthropology written by Rita Astuti and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-08 with Social Science categories.
Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work, political leadership and genocide, and our personal fears and desires, from the quest to control the future and to find one's 'true' identity to the fear of being alone. Each essay starts with a question posed by individual ethnographic experience and then goes on to frame this question in a broader, comparative context. Written in an engaging and accessible style, Questions of Anthropology presents an exciting introduction to the purpose and value of Anthropology today.
Time And History In Prehistory
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Author : Stella Souvatzi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-26
Time And History In Prehistory written by Stella Souvatzi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-26 with Social Science categories.
Time and History in Prehistory explores the many processes through which time and history are conceptualized and constructed, challenging the perception of prehistoric societies as ahistorical. Drawing equally on contemporary theory and illustrative case studies, and firmly rooted in material evidence, this book rearticulates concepts of time and history, questions the kind of narratives to be written about the past and underlines the fundamentally historical nature of prehistory. From a range of multi-disciplinary perspectives, the authors of this volume address the scales at which archaeological evidence and narrative are interwoven, from a single day to deep history and from a solitary pot to a complete city. In doing so, they argue the need for a multi-scalar approach to prehistoric data that allows for the interplay between short and long term, and for analytical units that encourage us to move continuously between scales. The growing interest in time and history in archaeology and across a wide range of disciplines concerned with human action and the human past highlights that these are exceptionally active fields. By juxtaposing varied viewpoints, this volume bridges gaps in narrative, finds a place for inclusive histories and makes clear the benefit of integrative and interdisciplinary approaches, including different disciplines and types of data.
Reassembling The Strange
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Author : Thomas Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-10-15
Reassembling The Strange written by Thomas Anderson and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-15 with Political Science categories.
This book examines how Westerners understood and processed Madagascar and its environment during the nineteenth century. Madagascar’s unique ecosystem crafted its reputation as a strange place full of unusual species. Westerners, however, often minimized Madagascar’s peculiar features to stress the commonality of its fauna and flora with the world. The attempt to understand the island through science led to a domestication of its environment that created the image of a tame and known world capable of being controlled and used by Western powers. At the heart of the exploration of Madagascar and its transformation in Western eyes from a strange world to a cash crop colony were missionaries and naturalists who relied upon global experiences to master the island by normalizing the peculiar qualities of Madagascar’s environment. This book reveals how the environment played a dominant role in understanding the island and its people, and how current environmental debates have evolved from earlier policies and discussions about the environment.
The Weight Of The Past
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Author : M. Lambek
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
The Weight Of The Past written by M. Lambek and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Social Science categories.
In The Weight of the Past , Michael Lambek explores the complex ways that history shapes, constrains, and enables daily life. Focusing on ritual performances of spirit mediumship in a multifaceted religious landscape, Lambek's analysis reveals the multiple ways that Sakalava 'bear' history. In Mahajanga, Madagascar, to bear history is at once a weighty obligation, a creative re-birthing, a scrupulous cultivation, and an exuberant performance of the past. To bear history is to serve and to suffer it, but also to be informed, enlightened, and sanctified. Royal ancestors emerge in spirit mediums to comment on the present from multiple voices and generate a refracted, ironic historical consciousness. This book describes the division of labour, creative production (poiesis), and ethical practice (phronesis) entailed in imagining, embodying, and serving the past. It is at once a vivid ethnography of Sakalava life and a significant intervention in anthropological debates on culture and history, structure and practice, advocating a theoretical approach informed by Aristotelian categories of understanding. Ethnographically rich and engagingly written, this book will be essential reading for courses in the anthropology of religion, ritual, or historical consciousness.
Gods And Ancestors
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Author : Jørgen Ruud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Gods And Ancestors written by Jørgen Ruud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Religion categories.
JÃ?Â?Ã?Â, rgen Ruud worked in Madagascar from1934 to 1954 as a Lutheran minister sent out by the Norwegian Missionary Society. However, he followed the rather unusual tradition of combining his missionary activities with the intensive study of the language and customs of the indigenous population. The relationship between the Malagasy and their ancestors is quite exceptional. The Madagascan believes in the invisible and lives in a mysterious world in which the living and dead are in perpetual confrontation. The author introduces us to this hidden domain where one must always be on guard against the forces of evil and seek to attract favorable influences. The book touches on ideas and religious practices of extreme importance to the TanÃ?Â?Ã? la tribe.