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  title info:
    title: Island in the stream
    sub title: an ethnographic history of Mayotte
  name:
    name part: Lambek, Michael
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxxi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an east African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this forty-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial backwater to a full département of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within France rather than joining the independent republic of the Comoros. The Malagasy-speaking Muslim villagers Michael Lambek encountered in 1975 practiced subsistence cultivation and lived without roads, schools, electricity or running water. Today, they are educated citizens of the European Union who travel regularly to metropolitan France and beyond. Offering a series of ethnographic slices of life across time, Island in the Stream highlights community members' ethical engagement in their own history as they looked to the future, acknowledged the past, and engaged and transformed local forms of sociality, exchange and ritual performance. This is a unique account of the changing horizons and historical consciousness of an African community and an intimate portrait of the inhabitants and their concerns, as well as a glimpse into the changing perspective of the ethnographer.
  note: Michael Lambek ; with a foreword by Michael Jackson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: i-my---
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    geographic: Mayotte
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Mayotte
    topic: Social life and customs
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Mayotte
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Anthropology
    topic: General
  classification: GN661.M3 L27 2018
  classification: 305.8009694/5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Anthropological horizons
  identifier: 9781487503918
  identifier: 1487503911
  identifier: 9781487522995
  identifier: 1487522991
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 180329
    record change date: 20190422100051.0
    record identifier: in00004037060
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng