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100 1 Sharp, Lesley Alexandra.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
names/no91030560
245 14 The possessed and the dispossessed :|bspirits, identity,
and power in a Madagascar migrant town /|cLesley A. Sharp.
264 1 Berkeley :|bUniversity of California Press,|c1996.
264 4 |c©1993
300 1 online resource (xix, 345 pages) :|billustrations, maps.
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490 1 Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ;
|vno. 37
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-337) and
index.
505 00 |g1.|tIntroduction: Possession, Identity, and Power:
Theoretical and Methodological Considerations --|tCritical
Approaches to the Study of Affliction --|tInvestigating
Possession: Social Change, Marginality, and Religious
Experience --|tLogic and Methods of Inquiry --|gpt. I.
|tHistoric, Political-Economic, and Social Levels of
Experience --|g2.|tPolitical Economy of the Sambirano --
|tAmbanja, a Plantation Community --|tEconomic and
Political History of the Region --|tLocal Power and
Reactions to Colonialism --|g3.|tNational and Local
Factions: The Nature of Polyculturalism in Ambanja --
|tNational Factions: Regionalism and Cultural Stereotypes
--|tSocial and Cultural Divisions in Ambanja --|tEffects
of Polyculturalism --|g4.|tTera-Tany and Vahiny: Insiders
and Outsiders --|tMigrant Stories --|tPatterns of
Association and Means for Incorporation --|gpt. II.
|tSpirit Possession in the Sambirano --|g5.|tWorld of the
Spirits --^|tDynamics of Tromba in Daily Life --
|tPossession Experience --|tOther Members of the Spirit
World --|g6.|tSacred Knowledge and Local Power: Tromba and
the Sambirano Economy --|tTromba as Ethnohistory --
|tTromba, Wage Labor, and Economic Independence --|tTromba
and Collective Power in the Sambirano --|g7.|tSpirit
Mediumship and Social Identity --|tSelfhood and Personhood
in the Context of Possession --|tTurning Outsiders into
Insiders: Mediums' Social Networks and Personal
Relationships --|tMiasa ny Tromba: Mediumship as Work --
|gpt. III.|tConflicts of Town Life --|g8.|tProblems and
Conflicts of Town Life: The Adult World --|tMalagasy
Concepts of Healing --|tSickness and Death --|tWork and
Success --|tLove and Money, Wives and Mistresses --|g9.
|tSocial World of Children --|tPossessed Youth of Ambanja
--|tDisorder of a Fragmented World --|tChildren and Social
Change --|g10.|tExorcising the Spirits: The Alternative
Therapeutics of Protestantism --|tSakalava Perceptions of
Possession and Madness.
520 1 "This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural
community demonstrates that spirit possession reflects in
microcosm many of the contradictions of daily life in a
plantation economy. Female spirit mediums - a group
heretofore assumed to be marginal - are in fact powerful
and honored healers who assist their clients, the peasants
and migrant laborers of Madagascar's Sambirano Valley.
Lesley Sharp's wide-ranging analysis shows how spirit
possession, identity, and power are intrinsically linked."
"Possession by royal ancestral or tromba spirits is
central to the concept of identity in Ambanja, the urban
center of the Sambirano Valley. In this town there is an
intense competition between insiders and outsiders. The
insiders are primarily the indigenous Bemazava-Sakalava,
the tera-tany or "children of the soil"; the outsiders are
vahiny or "guests," labor migrants come to seek their
fortunes. Yet these categories are fluid. Active
participation in tromba possession confirms tera-tany
status; thus migrant women who become mediums may
transform their identities, becoming insiders. This action
affects their daily survival, since tera-tany status
confers access to arable land and local power structures."
"Tromba possession also yields deeper meanings that emerge
from the local knowledge of female mediums. These varied
meanings are reflected in the performative aspects of
healing ceremonies and are articulated through the
gestures of the human body. As Sharp shows, healers' words
and deeds reveal major sources of affliction, ranging from
romance to urbanization and capitalist labor relations.
Furthermore, spirit mediums are actively engaged in the
reconstruction of indigenous history. Finally, the most
powerful mediums draw on symbolic knowledge to influence
the thrust of economic development in the Sambirano
Valley."
520 8 "Sharp concludes this study with an analysis of how
indigenous spirit mediums and Protestant exorcists treat
extreme cases of possession and madness, revealing
contradictions inherent in cross-cultural psychiatric
praxis. More generally, the book challenges current views
about possession and marginal status, particularly in
reference to gender and age, insightful discussions of the
lives of migrant adults and children as they seek relief.
Some personal and social ills make Sharp's investigation
relevant to gender studies, medical anthropology religion
and ritual, and the politics of culture as well as African
and Madagascar studies."--Jacket.
588 0 Print version record.
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