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Bible et pouvoir à Madagascar au XIXe siècle: invention d'une identité chrétienne et construction de l'Etat (1700-1880)
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ISBN: 2865373177 9782865373178 Year: 1991 Publisher: Paris: Karthala,

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Essai sur la psychologie du Hova. Thèse
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Year: 1926 Publisher: Paris : Presses universitaires de France,

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La Conception malgache du monde, du surnaturel et de l'homme en Imerina
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ISBN: 2858020892 9782858020898 Year: 1979 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,


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L'histoire des rois d'Imerina : intermédiaire d'une tradition orale.
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ISBN: 2252017678 9782252017678 Year: 1974 Publisher: Paris Klincksieck


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Deriving nominals
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ISSN: 22106243 ISBN: 9004233725 9789004233720 9789004223974 9004223975 Year: 2012 Volume: 3 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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This book provides a detailed study of nominalizing patterns in Malagasy (Austronesian) and discusses the broader theoretical issues that arise from these patterns. It explores new and original fieldwork data drawn from the largely unexplored domain of Malagasy deverbal nominals. Offering new insights to long-standing puzzles in the derivation of argument-structure, referential, and clausal nominals, the book promotes a single structure-building mechanism, which allows nominalizers to attach at different heights in the clausal spine to derive nominals with different morphosyntactic properties. In addition, it provides a novel analysis of participant nominalizations, showing that they are derived through the same mechanism that derives relative clauses, and thus setting the stage for new and exciting research directions.

From blessing to violence : history and ideology in the circumcision ritual of the Merina of Madagascar.
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ISBN: 0521314046 0521306396 0511621671 9780521314046 Year: 1986 Volume: 61 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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The circumcision ritual of the Merina of Madagascar is seen by them primarily as a blessing, involving the transfer of the love and concern of the ancestors of their descendants. Yet the ritual ends in an act of ciolent wounding of the child. Similarily, while the ritual involves a symbolic assault on women, it is nonetheless welcomed by them as a mark of receiving the blessing of the ancestors. In this book, Maurice Bloch provides a detailed description and analysis of the Merina circumcision ritual today, offers an account of its history, and discusses the significance of his analysis for anthropological theories of ritual in general. Pursuing the theme of the combination of religious joy and illumination with violence, Professor Bloch explains how, at various times, the circumcision ceremony can be a familial ritual as well as glorification of a militarist and expansionist state, or associated with anti-colonial nationalism. Describing changes that have occurred in the form of the ritual over two centuries, Professor Bloch argues that in order to understand the properties of ritual in general, it is necessary to view it over a longer time scale than anthropologists have tended to do previously. Adopting such an historical perspective enables him to identify the stability of the Merina ritual's symbolic content, despite changes in its organisation, and dramatically changing politico-economic contexts. As well as presenting an original historical approach to the anthropological study of ritua;, Professor Bloch discusses a range of general theoretical issues, including the nature of ideology, and the relationship between images created in ritual and other types of knowledge. The book will appeal widely to scholars and students of anthropology, history, African studies, and comparative religion.


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The Mlungu in Africa : art from the colonial period, 1840-1940
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ISBN: 0620304626 Year: 2003 Publisher: Claremont Michael Stevenson Contemporary


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