The Maldive Islanders
Subtitle: A Study of the Popular Culture of an Ancient Ocean Kingdom
Publisher: Nova Ethnographia Indica
Published: 1999
Table of contents: label: INTRODUCTION
title: 5; title: I. An Oceanic Civilization; label: A Seafaring Nation
title: 11; label: Villages in the Ocean
title: 20; label: The Problem of the Maldivian Past
title: 25; label: The Story of Koimala
title: 28; label: The Conversion to the New Religion
title: 32; label: The Evil King
title: 37; label: The First Mosques
title: 51; label: The Struggle against Malevolent Forces
title: 55; label: The Law of Jealousy
title: 59; label: Display of Anger
title: 64; label: The Horror of Disease
title: 72; label: In the Wake of an Epidemic
title: 77; label: Mass Death
title: 86; title: Part II. The Island Mother; label: The Double Face of Femininity
title: 93; label: From Sweetness to Horror
title: 100; label: Spirits and Fever
title: 110; label: Blood Sacrifices
title: 113; label: The Link between Blood and Life
title: 121; label: The Village Goddess
title: 130; label: The Survival of Old Myths
title: 136; label: The Sorcerer and the Devi
title: 142; label: Secret Knowledge
title: 148; label: Inauspicious Death
title: 156; label: The Idealization of the Feminine
title: 165; label: The Dangerous Side of Women
title: 170; label: The Mystery of Female Power
title: 179; title: Part III. At the Threshold of the Spirit World; label: Ancient Sorcerers: Myths of Origin
title: 185; label: Myths of Extinction
title: 188; label: Tantric Heroes
title: 189; label: Lurking in the Darkness
title: 207; label: The Seven Mothers
title: 213; label: Fear of the Burial Grounds
title: 218; label: Special Powers
title: 226; label: Monsters from the Sea
title: 236; title: Part IV. A Showdown of Doctrines; label: Tutelary Spirits
title: 249; label: The Big Man
title: 259; label: Traces of Syncretism
title: 261; label: Folk Wisdom
title: 269; label: Honor and Privilege
title: 274; label: Foreign Masters
title: 280; label: Unequal Partners
title: 286; label: A Policy of Destruction
title: 290; title: EPILOGUE; label: Stuck in the Sands of Arabia
title: 294; label: BIBLIOGRAPHY
title: 297; label: INDEX
title: 302