Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar

Material Signs and Traces of the Dead

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Archaeology, History
Cover of the book Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar by Zoë Crossland, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Zoë Crossland ISBN: 9781107461314
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: February 17, 2014
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Zoë Crossland
ISBN: 9781107461314
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: February 17, 2014
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book Spectroscopy for Amateur Astronomers by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book The Dilemma of the Commoners by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book Spectres of the Self by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book G. E. Moore: Early Philosophical Writings by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book Crafting Strategy by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book Making Legal History by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia in Children by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book Volcanism and Global Environmental Change by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book Public Choice III by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book Institutions and Democracy in Africa by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book Comprehensive Care for Complex Patients by Zoë Crossland
Cover of the book July Crisis by Zoë Crossland
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy