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Category : Antananarivo (Antananarivo, Madagascar)
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Category : Madagascar
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: Frank Muttenzer
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031238362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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This book examines the history and impact of environmental change in Madagascar. Drawing on interdisciplinary, ethnographic methodologies, the book presents local and global perspectives on current environmental changes and their drivers, from mining to development and deforestation. The book emphasizes the embeddedness of Malagasy peoples’ social relationships with the natural environment, and contrasts this with the way the Malagasy environment is viewed by international conservation organizations. Through the presentation of concrete case studies, the contributors assess the current controversy over the history and nature of human impact on the environment in Madagascar, and offer innovatory insights into how these controversies, which plague current policy making, can be settled.

Author: Gwyn Campbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316511715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Explores the history of the 'Madagascar Youths', young people trained by the British, and their impact on Malagasy-British relations.

Author: Zoë Crossland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107470714
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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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.

Author: Gwyn Campbell
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004209808
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1203

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This book reveals the hitherto hidden history of inter-missionary dispute that split the first LMS mission to Madagascar. Focussing on David Griffiths, whose pivotal role was concealed by the LMS, it suggests that Welsh-English rivalry moulded the mission’s destiny.

Author: Sir James George Frazer
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Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Author: James George Frazer
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Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Frazer's series which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.

Author: James George Frazer
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Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Author: James George Frazer
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Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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