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Category : Madagascar
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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The Antananarvio Annual and Madagascar Magazine
Author: The Madagascar Youths
Author: Gwyn CampbellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316511715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Explores the history of the 'Madagascar Youths', young people trained by the British, and their impact on Malagasy-British relations.
Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar
Author: Zoë CrosslandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107470714
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Nineteenth-century highland Madagascar was a place inhabited by the dead as much as the living. Ghosts, ancestors and the possessed were important historical actors alongside local kings and queens, soldiers, traders and missionaries. This book considers the challenges that such actors pose for historical accounts of the past and for thinking about questions of presence and representation. How were the dead made present, and how were they recognized or not? In attending to these multifarious encounters of the nineteenth century, how might we reflect on the ways in which our own history-writing makes the dead present? To tackle these questions, Zoë Crossland tells an anthropological history of highland Madagascar from a perspective rooted in archaeology and Peircean semiotics, as well as in landscape study, oral history and textual sources.
Folk-lore in the Old Testament
Author: James George FrazerPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Contest for Land in Madagascar
Author: Sandra EversPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004256237
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Malagasy possess a profound religious, socio-political and economic attachment to land which connects individuals and kinship groups with the ancestors. International stakeholders value Madagascar for its biodiversity, minerals and agricultural potential, while the Malagasy state views land as the necessary platform for its economic development. This collection presents original research by established and rising scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including Human Genetics, Anthropology and History. Authors focus on land as the pivotal factor underlying the economic, social and religious structures of Malagasy society and its relationship with outsiders, aiming to provide new insights into the issues underlying Madagascar’s ongoing economic and political malaise.
The Golden Bough
Author: J.G. FrazerPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847675344
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 945
Book Description
The authoritative 1890 edition with an introduction by Cairns Craig and Frazer’s own afterword. Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic led Scottish anthropologist J.G. Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures. His observations on the mysteries of fertility and death, and the rites of the sacrificial king who must die to save his people, overturned much of contemporary intellectual thinking, not least because of the enlightening or ‘heretical’ parallels it suggested with the Christian religion. Frazer’s elegant and authoritative style, and the breadth of his learning inspired a whole generation of ethnographers and comparative anthropologists, and had a particularly powerful effect on many other thinkers and writers such as Sigmund Freud, D.H. Lawrence, Joyce, Yeats and T.S. Eliot. This definitive volume includes the unabridged original 1890 edition as well as several essays and lectures by Frazer. ‘Frazer’s work has epic scale yet mesmerizing fineness of detail. We see the great structures of civilization forming and melting against a background of elemental mystery. The effect is cinematic and sublime.’ Camille Paglia
The Golden Bough
Author: James George FrazerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108047327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
The greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of Sir James Frazer's controversial work on classical religion.
The Golden Bough
Author: James George FrazerPublisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Golden Bough: pt. II. Taboo and the perils of the soul. 1911
Author: James George FrazerPublisher:
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Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Author: Karl Friederici