ISBN:
1461955041
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1139565885
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9781461955047
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9781139565882
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 381 pages)
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illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Crossland, Zoë Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar
DDC:
305.8009691
Keywords:
Semiotics
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Dead Religious aspects
;
Landscapes Symbolic aspects
;
Merina (Malagasy people) Religion
;
Missions
;
Ethnology
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Ethnology
;
Landscapes ; Symbolic aspects
;
Merina (Malagasy people) ; Religion
;
Missions
;
Religion
;
Semiotics
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Dead ; Religious aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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History
;
Madagascar History 19th century
;
Madagascar Religion 19th century
;
Imerina (Madagascar) History 19th century
;
Madagascar
;
Madagascar ; Imerina
Abstract:
Examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
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