The Weight of the Past
Subtitle: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781403960689
Subjects: Aspects of religions (non-Christian); Ethnography; Religious groups; Social & cultural anthropology; Religion; History; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Textbooks; Sociology of Religion; Sociology; Madagascar; Sakalava (Malagasy people); Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Anthropology - General; Mahajanga (Madagascar : Provin; Mahajanga (Madagascar : Province)
First sentence: At the climax of the "Great Service," the annual ritual of political and cosmic renewal in Mahajanga, a procession emerges from the inner sanctum and circumambulates the temple.