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Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead / Zoë Crossland.
Penn Museum Library GN661.M2 C76 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crossland, Zoë, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Madagascar.
- Ethnology.
- Merina (Malagasy people)--Religion.
- Merina (Malagasy people).
- Religion.
- History.
- Landscapes--Symbolic aspects.
- Semiotics.
- Madagascar.
- Semiotics--Madagascar.
- Dead--Religious aspects.
- Dead.
- Landscapes--Symbolic aspects--Madagascar.
- Landscapes.
- Madagascar--History--19th century.
- Madagascar--Religion--19th century.
- Imerina (Madagascar)--History--19th century.
- Imerina (Madagascar).
- Missions--Madagascar.
- Missions.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- 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 semeiosis of reproduction
- Zone Rouge : encounters on the frontier
- Epilogue : ghostly presences.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-369) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107036093
- 1107036097
- OCLC:
- 813938881
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