Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead /
Examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781461955047 (electronic bk.) 1461955041 (electronic bk.) 9781139565882 (electronic bk.) 1139565885 (electronic bk.) |