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La vie héroïque de Victoire Rasoamanarivo
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Year: 1937 Publisher: Paris: Dillen,

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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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Ambohimanga-Rova : approche anthropologique de la civilisation merina, Madagascar
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ISBN: 2350610063 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris : le Publieur,

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Ocean of letters : language and creolization in an Indian Ocean diaspora.
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ISBN: 9780521739573 9780521518277 0521739578 052151827X Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press


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Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar
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ISBN: 9781107036093 1107036097 9781139565882 9781461955047 1461955041 1139565885 9781107468542 110746854X 9781107465046 1107465044 1107461316 9781107461314 1139889761 9781139889766 1107459257 9781107459250 1107473152 9781107473157 1107472148 9781107472143 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York

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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.


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