The earth shakers of Madagascar : an anthropological study of authority, fertility, and creation
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書誌事項
The earth shakers of Madagascar : an anthropological study of authority, fertility, and creation
(London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology, v. 73)
Continuum, 2002
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-276) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
An analysis of how the complex rituals of Sahafatra culture are used to transform a once barren landscape into agricultural land.
目次
- Introduction: the wasteland and its people and history
- the bigger picture - background and theory
- the authority system in the wasteland
- competing idioms of power
- testing - the process of becoming a senior panjaka
- the potency of the panjaka
- the 'raising up' of the panjaka as human alchemy
- funerary and commemorative practices
- conclusion: composite power and the cult of creation.
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