This collection of essays by regional specialists draws on a wide range of ethnographic and historical data to reassess the significance of the ancestors for changing relations of power and emerging identities in Madagascar. Booknews
Anthropologists, area specialists, and historians explore the significance of ancestors for changing relations of power, emerging identities, and local historical consciousness in the African island culture where the people are renowned for the prominence they give to the dead. The case studies include the royal bath of 1817, succession in an urbanized Sakalava kingdom, the Antakarana ritual cycle, 19th- century Norwegian missionary culture, sacrifice on the east coast, violence among the Zafimaniry, and circumcision and colonialism in the south. Other studies look at slavery, memory, and cultural politics in the highlands. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) More Reviews and Recommendations Editorial Reviews - Ancestors, Power and History in Madagascar From the Publisher
This collection of essays by regional specialists draws on a wide range of ethnographic and historical data to reassess the significance of the ancestors for changing relations of power and emerging identities in Madagascar. Booknews
Anthropologists, area specialists, and historians explore the significance of ancestors for changing relations of power, emerging identities, and local historical consciousness in the African island culture where the people are renowned for the prominence they give to the dead. The case studies include the royal bath of 1817, succession in an urbanized Sakalava kingdom, the Antakarana ritual cycle, 19th- century Norwegian missionary culture, sacrifice on the east coast, violence among the Zafimaniry, and circumcision and colonialism in the south. Other studies look at slavery, memory, and cultural politics in the highlands. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Loading... Features - Ancestors, Power and History in Madagascar Table of Contents Table of Contents List of illustrationsList of contributors1Introduction12A Cultural Politics of Bedchamber Construction and Progressive Dining in Antananarivo: Ritual Inversions During the Fandroana of 1817373Building God's Kingdom: The Importance of the House to Nineteenth Century Norwegian Missionaries in Madagascar714Royal Difficulties: The Anxieties of Succession in an Urbanized Sakalava Kingdom1035The Imagined Community of the Antankarana: Identity, History, and Ritual in Northern Madagascar1456"Eating" Young Men Among the Zafimaniry1757Sacrifice, Narratives and Experience in East Madagascar1918Circumcision, Death, and Strangers2199The Construction of History and Culture in the Southern Highlands: Tombs, Slaves and Ancestors25710Social Competition and the Control of Sacred Places in Rural Imerina: the Case of Ankadivoribe28311Painful Memories319Index349
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