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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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This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken over eleven visits across 40 years. It initiates an original genre of ethnographic history and describes people's ongoing ethical engagement with their past and future.

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.