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- catalog abstract ""The peoples of Madagascar are renowned for the prominence they give to the dead. In this edited volume, regional specialists reassess the significance of ancestors for changing relations of power, emerging identities, and local historical consciousness."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11297005.
- catalog coverage "Madagascar Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "Madagascar Religious life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "Madagascar Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""The peoples of Madagascar are renowned for the prominence they give to the dead. In this edited volume, regional specialists reassess the significance of ancestors for changing relations of power, emerging identities, and local historical consciousness."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "'Eating' young men among the Zafimaniry / Maurice Bloch -- Sacrifice, narratives and experience in East Madagascar / Jennifer Cole -- Circumcision, death, and strangers / Karen Middleton -- The construction of history and culture in the Southern Highlands : tombs, slaves and ancestors / Sandra Evers -- Social competition and the control of sacred places in rural Imerina : the case of Ankadivoribe / Françoise Raison-Jourde -- Painful memories / David Graeber.".
- catalog description "A cultural politics of bedchamber construction and progressive dining in Antananarivo : ritual inversions during the fandroana of 1817 / Pier M. Larson -- Building God's kingdom : the importance of the house to nineteenth century Norwegian missionaries in Madagascar / Karina Hestad Skeie -- Royal difficulties : the anxieties of succession in an urbanized Sakalava kingdom / Lesley A. Sharp -- The imagined community of the Antankaraña : identity, history, and ritual in northern Madagascar / Michael Lambek and Andrew Walsh.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 360 p. :".
- catalog identifier "9004112898 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies of religion in Africa, 0169-9814 ; 20".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies on religion in Africa ; 20.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Leiden ; Boston : Brill,".
- catalog spatial "Madagascar Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Madagascar Religious life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Madagascar Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Madagascar.".
- catalog subject "306/.09691 21".
- catalog subject "Ancestor worship Madagascar.".
- catalog subject "Funeral rites and ceremonies Madagascar.".
- catalog subject "GN661.M2 A52 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "'Eating' young men among the Zafimaniry / Maurice Bloch -- Sacrifice, narratives and experience in East Madagascar / Jennifer Cole -- Circumcision, death, and strangers / Karen Middleton -- The construction of history and culture in the Southern Highlands : tombs, slaves and ancestors / Sandra Evers -- Social competition and the control of sacred places in rural Imerina : the case of Ankadivoribe / Françoise Raison-Jourde -- Painful memories / David Graeber.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A cultural politics of bedchamber construction and progressive dining in Antananarivo : ritual inversions during the fandroana of 1817 / Pier M. Larson -- Building God's kingdom : the importance of the house to nineteenth century Norwegian missionaries in Madagascar / Karina Hestad Skeie -- Royal difficulties : the anxieties of succession in an urbanized Sakalava kingdom / Lesley A. Sharp -- The imagined community of the Antankaraña : identity, history, and ritual in northern Madagascar / Michael Lambek and Andrew Walsh.".
- catalog title "Ancestors, power and history in Madagascar / edited by Karen Middleton.".
- catalog type "text".