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Author Crossland, Zoë, author.

Title Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead / Zoë Crossland.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary Examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Ethnology -- Madagascar.
Ethnology.
Madagascar.
Semiotics -- Madagascar.
Semiotics.
Dead -- Religious aspects.
Dead -- Religious aspects.
Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects -- Madagascar.
Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects.
Madagascar -- History -- 19th century.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Madagascar -- Religion -- 19th century.
Religion.
Imerina (Madagascar) -- History -- 19th century.
Merina (Malagasy people) -- Religion.
Merina (Malagasy people) -- Religion.
Merina (Malagasy people)
Missions -- Madagascar.
Missions.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Crossland, Zoë. Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar 9781107036093 (DLC) 2013018870 (OCoLC)813938881
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