Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead /

Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Crossland, Zoë, author.
Imprint:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
©2014
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Ethnology -- Madagascar.
Semiotics -- Madagascar.
Dead -- Religious aspects.
Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects -- Madagascar.
Merina (Malagasy people) -- Religion.
Missions -- Madagascar.
Dead -- Religious aspects.
Ethnology.
Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects.
Merina (Malagasy people) -- Religion.
Missions.
Religion.
Semiotics.
Madagascar -- History -- 19th century.
Madagascar -- Religion -- 19th century.
Imerina (Madagascar) -- History -- 19th century.
Madagascar.
Madagascar -- Imerina.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11832081
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9781461955047
1461955041
9781139565882
1139565885
9781107468542
110746854X
9781107036093
1107036097
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history.
Other form:Print version: Crossland, Zoë. Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar 9781107036093

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