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

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ISBN:	9781461955047 1461955041 9781139565882 1139565885 9781107468542 110746854X 9781107036093 1107036097 9781107465046 1107465044 1107461316 9781107461314 1139889761 9781139889766 1107459257 9781107459250 1107473152 9781107473157 1107472148 9781107472143
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

Table of 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 semeiotics of reproduction
Zone Rouge : encounters on the frontier
Epilogue : ghostly presences.