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  • Crossland, Zoë  (3)
  • Bade, Klaus J.
  • New York : Cambridge University Press  (4)
  • Göttingen : Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781107036093
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 380 Seiten , Illustrationen , 26 cm
    DDC: 305.8009691
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    Keywords: Ethnology ; Semiotics ; Dead Religious aspects ; Landscapes Symbolic aspects ; Merina (Malagasy people) Religion ; Missions ; Imerina (Madagascar) History 19th century ; Madagascar History 19th century ; Madagascar Religion 19th century
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-369) and index , IntroductionUncertain 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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  • 2
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    New York : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1461955041 , 1139565885 , 9781461955047 , 9781139565882
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 381 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Crossland, Zoë Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar
    DDC: 305.8009691
    Keywords: Semiotics ; Dead Religious aspects ; Landscapes Symbolic aspects ; Merina (Malagasy people) Religion ; Missions ; Ethnology ; Ethnology ; Landscapes ; Symbolic aspects ; Merina (Malagasy people) ; Religion ; Missions ; Religion ; Semiotics ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Dead ; Religious aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; 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 , English
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  • 3
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    New York : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107036093
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (400 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar : Material Signs and Traces of the Dead
    DDC: 305.8009691
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Encounters with ancestors; Themes in the historiography of Madagascar; Encounters; Ancestral agency; Materiality and representation; Outline of the book; The Center; The Frontier; Part I The Center; 1 Uncertain signs and the power of the dead; The politics of fire; Locating ruins; Fire and the ancestors; Signs of change; 2 Recognition and misrecognition in the missionary encounter; Problems of recognition; Arrival in Antananarivo; Locating mission; Improvement
    Description / Table of Contents: The semeiosis of recognition and nonrecognitionFirst: Quality or Potential; Second: Relation or Reaction; Third: Habit and Mediation; Challenges to recognition; 3 The signs of mission; Ancestral agency; Paying tribute; Semeiotic agency; Landscape and center; Kinship and exchange; Interpretants of blessing and its mismanagement; Between signs and practical reality; Part II The Frontier; 4 Conquering the Andrantsay:Familiar histories; State expansion and kinship; History, servitude, and kinship; Building and breaking kinship on the state frontier; Ancestral landscapes of the Andrantsay
    Description / Table of Contents: Gathering the signs of historyConquering the dead; 5 Standing stones and the semeiosis of reproduction; Highland stone worlds; Stones of the State; Mortuary Stones; Stones that speak; Stone texts; Histories of exchange; The habit of meeting; Stones of State Authority: Rabiby; Soldier Stones: Rainipiana and Rainitongavola; Ancestral debt and obligation; A standing stone is a sum of money; 6 Zone Rouge: Encounters on the frontier; Military men; Strangers; Vazimba, brigands, and the enslaved; Red Zone; Epilogue:Ghostly presences; Worlds of might be and would be; Notes; Glossary
    Description / Table of Contents: Reign of sovereigns mentioned in the text (central Imerina)Archival sources; Bibliography; Index
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  • 4
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    New York : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9781139008075
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1500 pages)
    DDC: 304.8094/03
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Migration ; Einwanderung ; Auswanderung ; Nationale Minderheit ; Europa ; Wörterbuch ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Newly available to an English-speaking audience, this encyclopaedia presents a systematic overview of the existing scholarship regarding migration within and into Europe.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 3525863071
    Language: German
    Pages: 34 S.
    Series Statement: Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften: Berichte aus den Sitzungen der Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften e.V., Hamburg 18,5
    Series Statement: Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften: Berichte aus den Sitzungen der Joachim-Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften e.V., Hamburg
    DDC: 304.8/4
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Europa ; Migration ; Arbeitsmigration ; Migration ; Migrationsforschung ; Migration ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Migration ; Illegale Einwanderung ; Migrationspolitik ; Europa ; Europa ; Europe Emigration and immigration ; Europa ; Europa ; Migration ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Europa ; Illegale Einwanderung ; Migrationspolitik
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