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The presence of the past : Madagascar, music, and devotion / filmed, produced, and narrated by Ron Emoff.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk music--Madagascar--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- Spirit possession--Madagascar--Rites and ceremonies.
- Spirit possession.
- Ancestor worship--Madagascar--Rites and ceremonies.
- Ancestor worship.
- Madagascar.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Ethnographic films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (54 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Montpelier, VT : Multicultural Media, 2004.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- People throughout Madagascar maintain a strong reverential connection to their ancestors, whose spirits may be called upon to enter into the present to resolve problems and to heal illness. Music performance provides a vital means of communicating with these ancestral spirits, thus of evoking the past and the power emergent in it. This project results from intensive ethnographic research that Ron Emoff performed on the east coast of Madagascar from 1993 through 1995. Dr. Emoff's fieldwork focused upon connections between musical performance, spirit possession, ways of recollecting the past, constructions of power, and perceptions of the colonial era in Madagascar.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 11, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 1048440141
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