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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, local forms of religious and therapeutic practice, social accountability, and the place of explicit forms of knowledge in the analysis of non-western societies.

Islam --- Spirit possession --- Knowledge, Theory of (Islam) --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Islamic epistemology --- Islamic philosophy --- Possession, Spirit --- Experience (Religion) --- Mayotte --- Social life and customs. --- Mayotta Island --- Maote --- Ile Mayotte --- Mayotta --- Collectivité territoriale de Mayotte

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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. (Provided by publisher)

Ethnology --- History --- Mayotte --- Social life and customs --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Mayotta Island --- Maote --- Ile Mayotte --- Mayotta --- Collectivité territoriale de Mayotte --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelles --- Histoire --- Moeurs et coutumes --- History. --- Africa. --- Comoros. --- Islam. --- Madagascar. --- Mayotte. --- development. --- ethical. --- ethnography. --- historical. --- history. --- horizons. --- life. --- ritual. --- sociality.