Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar
Subtitle: material signs and traces of the dead
By: Zoë Crossland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781107036093
Subjects: Ethnology; Semiotics; Dead; Religious aspects; Landscapes; History; Religion; Merina (Malagasy people); Missions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-369) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Uncertain signs and the power of the dead; title: Recognition and misrecognition in the missionary encounter; title: The signs of mission; title: Conquering the Andrantsay : familiar histories; title: Standing stones and the semeiotics of reproduction; title: Zone Rouge : encounters on the frontier; title: Epilogue : ghostly presences.