Ritual imagination
Subtitle: a study of tromba possession among the Betsimisaraka in eastern Madagascar
By: by Hilde Nielssen
Series: Studies of religion in Africa -- v. 40; Studies on religion in Africa -- 40.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9789004215245
Subjects: Social life and customs; Cults; Spirit possession; Religion; Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people); Rites and ceremonies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: The village; title: The Betsimisaraka, history and the spread of tromba; title: Localising tromba; title: A spirit world of movement and change; title: Making connections: spirits, persons and places; title: Tromba nights of clapping, song and dance; title: The judgement bath; title: Tromba and the radical imaginary; title: Tromba, translocality and the magic of the Malagasy nation; title: Epilogue: magic and political imagination.