The earth shakers of Madagascar : an anthropological study of authority, fertility, and creation

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The earth shakers of Madagascar : an anthropological study of authority, fertility, and creation

Oliver Woolley

(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

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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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