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Author: URLACHER Bernard Publisher: Bernard Urlacher ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 533
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This book is a photo journal written by a teacher throughout the 2010/11 school year and an anthropological analysis. The diary shows the fragility of life on this French island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It is marked in part by insecurity and by the influx of illegal immigrants from some of the poorest countries in the world. The author takes the reader into the life of a teacher, of a class, of a high school, of the national education system, and into his intimate life.
Author: URLACHER Bernard Publisher: Bernard Urlacher ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 533
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This book is a photo journal written by a teacher throughout the 2010/11 school year and an anthropological analysis. The diary shows the fragility of life on this French island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It is marked in part by insecurity and by the influx of illegal immigrants from some of the poorest countries in the world. The author takes the reader into the life of a teacher, of a class, of a high school, of the national education system, and into his intimate life.
Author: Michael Lambek Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521238441 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 244
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Based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book describes and interprets trance behaviour among the Malagasy speakers of Mayotte, a small island in the Comoro Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa. Professor Lambek describes how the people of Mayotte (most often women) enter into trances, during which they believe their bodies are inhabited by spirits. He then analyses the conventions for behaviour in trance and the process by which the individuals come to terms with the spirits in their midst. The book presents thorough case studies of spirit possession over time, providing one of the most detailed accounts of possession phenomena available for a single society. The author argues that trance can best be understood as a social activity within a defined system of cultural meaning rather than as a psychological problem, a simple deception or a means of manipulating others. This book should be of particular interest to those concerned with the study of ritual, symbols and non-Western religious systems.
Author: Lee Haring Publisher: Open Book Publishers ISBN: 1805110071 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 125
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The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France. The author’s innovation is to read ethnographic researches as play scripts—to see printed folktales as accounts of live performances. One storyteller after another comments symbolically on what it is like to be a formerly colonised population. Storytelling women, in particular, combine diverse plots and characters to create traditional-sounding stories, which could not have been predicted from the African, Malagasy, Indian, and European traditions coexisting in Mayotte. Haring’s account shows them to be particularly skilled at irony and ambiguity, conveying both submissive and rebellious attitudes in their tales. He makes Mayotte storytelling accessible to a new, English-speaking audience and demonstrates that traditional storytellers in those years were preserving, but also critiquing, their inherited social order in a changing world. Their creative intentions, cultural influences and widely different narrative styles constitute Mayotte’s system of the arts of the word. Literary specialists, folklore enthusiasts, and people who like reading stories will find much to appreciate in this engaging and sophisticated book.
Author: Michael Lambek Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442638613 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages :
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On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, on local forms of religious and therapeutic practice, on social accountability, and on the place of explicit forms of knowledge in the analysis of non-western societies. The "objectified" textual knowledge characteristic of Islam and of cosmology is contrasted with the "embodied" knowledge of spirit possession. Lambek emphasizes the power and authority constituted by each discipline, as well as the challenge that each kind of knowledge presents to the others and their resolution in daily practice. "Disciplines" are defined as an organized body of practitioners or adepts, a concept precise and useful when applied to the contexts of Lambek's own research and equally so in the study of comparable environments elsewhere. Essential reading for those interested in the comparative study of Islamic societies, Lambek's argument directly contributes to the main anthropological arguments of the day concerning the social and cultural basis of systems of knowledge and ethnographic strategies for depicting them.
Author: Michael Lambek Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487519052 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 371
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Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial backwater to a full département of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within France rather than joining the independent republic of the Comoros. The Malagasy-speaking Muslim villagers Michael Lambek encountered in 1975 practiced subsistence cultivation and lived without roads, schools, electricity, or running water; today they are educated citizens of the EU who travel regularly to metropolitan France and beyond. Offering a series of ethnographic slices of life across time, Island in the Stream highlights community members' ethical engagement in their own history as they looked to the future, acknowledged the past, and engaged and transformed local forms of sociality, exchange, and ritual performance. This is a unique account of the changing horizons and historical consciousness of an African community and an intimate portrait of the inhabitants and their concerns, as well as a glimpse into the changing perspective of the ethnographer.
Author: Keith Willans Publisher: ShieldCrest Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1911090437 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 175
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Some ten years have elapsed since the world was rid of the scourge of the maniacal Tommy Tu-Sun who met his end whilst undergoing radical brain surgery at a Swiss clinic in Davos…… But did he? A series of alarming but seemingly unconnected events on mainland Europe provokes renewed interest from the International Crime Prevention Unit section of the ICPB which is now headed by Keith Harpur. It followed the disappearance of 10 year old Samuel Harpur, beloved son of Keith and Sally Harpur, from their home in Carmarthen.
Author: Douglas Probst Publisher: ISBN: 9781736362921 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This is my life story. It's a brutally honest description of my childhood, which was scarred with horrific physical and sexual abuse by my parents, priests, probation officers and others who were my authority figures in the LA County Probation System. I was incarcerated throughout my teenage life - from 12-17, never seeing the outside world. This was from 1977-1982. I was emancipated to the streets in 1982, and landed in the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic when there was no name for this disease, I watched 30 of my fellow hustlers die of a disease that had no name before I turned 18. I was lucky to get off the streets because I had a musical talent that enabled me to play with many famous recording artists of the time: Billy Preston, Neil Young, Dan Hartman, James Ingram and many others. I cried while many dying men breathed their last breaths, eventually becoming an aid to hundreds of now deceased AIDS victims. I also performed in Adult Films in the 1980s and was a top nude model throughout the decade, my pictures gracing the covers and centerfolds of many pornographic publications. In those days, we we could live separate lives. Today, we tell the truth or the internet tells it for us. My son and I googled my name Shawn Mayotte in 2006 and we were stunned at how my popularity as a model was worldwide. This is the true story of a survivor.
Author: James Penrith Publisher: Vacation Work Publications ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 292
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A guide which covers the islands of Madagascar and Comoros. There are details of medical care, bargain air travel, customs and etiquette, rules of the road, hints on speaking the language and locating budget accommodation.
Author: URLACHER Bernard
Author: URLACHER Bernard
Author: Michael Lambek
Author: Lee Haring
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Author: Michael Lambek
Author: Mayotte Capécia
Author: Michael Lambek
Author: Keith Willans
Author: Douglas Probst
Author: James Penrith