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1 online resource (xxii, 468 pages) : illustrations. |
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Anthropological horizons
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Anthropological horizons.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Preface""; ""Stylistic Conventions and Conundrums""; ""Dramatis Personae""; ""PART I: INTRODUCTIONS""; ""1 Knowledge and Hubris""; ""Knowledge, Power, and Morality""; ""Towards an Anthropology of Knowledge""; ""Transcending Subdisciplinary Boundaries""; ""Ethnography as Hermeneutic Practice""; ""2 Locating Knowledge in Mayotte: Structure, History, and Practice""; ""Cultural Diversity in Mayotte""; ""Historical Overview""; ""The Three Traditions""; ""Historical Practice""; ""Islam 'Versus' Possession?""; ""From the Sweep of Traditions to Local Views"" |
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""3 Village Organization and the Distribution of Knowledge""""The Social Distribution of Knowledge""; ""Portrait of the Villages""; ""The Social Organization of the Village from the Perspective of Knowledge""; ""The Village Fundis""; ""The Economic Basis of the Experts""; ""PART II: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF TEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE""; ""4 Islam: The Perspective from the Path""; ""Prayer and the Projection of Moral Imperatives""; ""The Social Production of Prayer""; ""Prayer and Reciprocity""; ""The Politics of Prayer""; ""The Economy of Justice"" |
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""5 Educating Citizens: The Reproduction of Textual Knowledge""""The Three 'R's': Reading, Writing, and Recitation""; ""The Transmission of Knowledge and Authority""; ""Learning as the Embodiment of Knowledge""; ""Individuation through Learning: An Example of an Educated Citizen""; ""The Value of Learning""; ""6 Islamic Experts: Practice and Power""; ""The Vulnerability of Authority""; ""Islam and Politics: Two Public Figures""; ""Styles of Practice: Two Village Fundis""; ""Moral Intervention and Understanding""; ""Friday Prostrations: A Conflict of Interpretations and Modes of Legitimation"" |
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""The Articulation of Heterogenous Knowledge in Practice""""Certain Knowledge, Contestable Authority""; ""PART III: COUNTERPRACTICES: COSMOLOGY AND THE INS AND OUTS OF SORCERY""; ""7 Knowledge with Power: The Discipline of Cosmology""; ""Relations of (Re)production""; ""Divination as Calculation""; ""World and Body""; ""Indispensable Knowledge, Amoral Authority""; ""Interdisciplinary Challenges""; ""A Cut in Time""; ""8 Knowledge and Antipractice: Committing Sorcery""; ""The Dark Side of Knowledge""; ""The Imagination of Evil""; ""A Dead End""; ""Sorcery in Practice"" |
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""Postscript: Unleashed Accusations""""9 Removing Sorcery: Committing (to) the Cure""; ""Extractor and Client""; ""Extraction in Theory""; ""Tumbu in Practice""; ""Scepticism and the Conversation between the Disciplines""; ""The Extraction Itself: Experience and Sincerity""; ""Extraction as Performance""; ""Conviction and Good Faith""; ""PART IV: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE AND THE PRACTICE OF SPIRIT MEDIUMS""; ""10 The Reproduction of Possession: Gaining a Voice""; ""Spirit Possession as Embodied Knowledge""; ""Gaining a Spirit as Moral Agency""; ""Public and Personal Aspects of Succession"" |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Islam -- Mayotte.
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Islam. |
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Mayotte. |
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Mayotte -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Spirit possession -- Mayotte.
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Spirit possession. |
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Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
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Knowledge, Theory of (Islam) |
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Islam -- Mayotte. |
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Knowledge Sociology |
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Comoro Islands |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Lambek, Michael. Knowledge and practice in Mayotte. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1993 (DLC) 94150337 (OCoLC)28019703 |
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9781442676534 (electronic book) |
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1442676531 (electronic book) |
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1281997277 |
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9781281997272 |
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0802029604 (bound) |
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9780802029607 (bound) |
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0802077838 (paperback) |
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9780802077837 (paperback) |
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