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- catalog abstract ""In the empty 'Wastelands' of south-east Madagascar intrepid homesteaders struggle to 'make the land living', striking out into the wilds and building villages and rice paddies. As this pioneering expansion turns a once-barren landscape into a fertile resource for an ever-growing number of flourishing agricultural communities, there is an increasing concern on the part of the competing resident clans to control the act of 'creation' itself." "So great is the perceived need to access supra-human sources of fertility that local leaders are forced by their people to 'sacrifice' themselves in order to harness the life-giving and animating force of 'creation'. Held hostage by their subjects, leaders attempt to recreate in human terms creations most apparently potent and productive reaction; the violent and elemental combination of earth and water that takes place in the flooded rice paddies prior to sowing. The transformative and generative power of this complex ritual of mimicry not only helps explain the unique and curious relationship between 'rulers' and 'ruled' to be found in the region but also allows us to understand how the inseparability of people, land and divinity informs such a political system."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12630616.
- catalog coverage "Vondrozo (Madagascar) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""In the empty 'Wastelands' of south-east Madagascar intrepid homesteaders struggle to 'make the land living', striking out into the wilds and building villages and rice paddies. As this pioneering expansion turns a once-barren landscape into a fertile resource for an ever-growing number of flourishing agricultural communities, there is an increasing concern on the part of the competing resident clans to control the act of 'creation' itself."".
- catalog description ""So great is the perceived need to access supra-human sources of fertility that local leaders are forced by their people to 'sacrifice' themselves in order to harness the life-giving and animating force of 'creation'. Held hostage by their subjects, leaders attempt to recreate in human terms creations most apparently potent and productive reaction; the violent and elemental combination of earth and water that takes place in the flooded rice paddies prior to sowing.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-276) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: Setting the Scene -- Introduction: The Wasteland, Its People and History -- 1. The Bigger Picture: Background and Theory -- 2. The Authority System in the Wasteland -- 3. Competing Idioms of Power -- 4. Testing: The Process of Becoming a Senior Panjaka -- 5. The Potency of the Panjaka -- 6. The 'Raising Up' of the Panjaka as Human Alchemy -- 7. Funerary and Commemorative Practices -- Conclusion: Composite Power and the Cult of Creation.".
- catalog description "The transformative and generative power of this complex ritual of mimicry not only helps explain the unique and curious relationship between 'rulers' and 'ruled' to be found in the region but also allows us to understand how the inseparability of people, land and divinity informs such a political system."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "x, 284 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0826457509".
- catalog isPartOf "London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology ; v. 73".
- catalog isPartOf "Monographs on social anthropology ; no. 73.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Continuum,".
- catalog spatial "Vondrozo (Madagascar) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "305.89/93 21".
- catalog subject "DT469.M277 S338 2002".
- catalog subject "Sahafatra (Malagasy people) Kings and rulers.".
- catalog subject "Sahafatra (Malagasy people) Rites and ceremonies.".
- catalog subject "Vondrozo (Madagascar) Social life and customs.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Setting the Scene -- Introduction: The Wasteland, Its People and History -- 1. The Bigger Picture: Background and Theory -- 2. The Authority System in the Wasteland -- 3. Competing Idioms of Power -- 4. Testing: The Process of Becoming a Senior Panjaka -- 5. The Potency of the Panjaka -- 6. The 'Raising Up' of the Panjaka as Human Alchemy -- 7. Funerary and Commemorative Practices -- Conclusion: Composite Power and the Cult of Creation.".
- catalog title "The earth shakers of Madagascar : an anthropological study of authority, fertility, and creation / Oliver Woolley.".
- catalog type "text".