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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.

Ethnology --- Semiotics --- Dead --- Landscapes --- Merina (Malagasy people) --- Missions --- Ethnology. --- Missions. --- Religion. --- Semiotics. --- Religious aspects. --- Symbolic aspects --- Symbolic aspects. --- 1800-1899. --- Madagascar --- Imerina (Madagascar) --- Madagascar. --- History --- Religion --- Antimerina (Malagasy people) --- Hova (Malagasy people) --- Hovas --- Imerina (Malagasy people) --- Ovah (Malagasy people) --- Countryside --- Landscape --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Nature --- Dead (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Imerina, Madagascar --- Emyrne (Madagascar) --- Imaïrne (Madagascar) --- Madagaskar --- Democratic Republic of Madagascar --- Repoblika Demokratika n'i Madagaskar --- Repoblika Demokratika Malagasy --- République démocratique de Madagascar --- RDM --- Repoblikan'i Madagasikara --- République de Madagascar --- Repoblikan'i Madakasikara --- Madagasikara --- Republic of Madagascar --- マダガスカル --- Madagasukaru --- מדגסקר --- Malagasy Republic

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