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The presence of the past : Madagascar, music, and devotion /

People throughout Madagascar maintain a strong reverential connection to their ancestors, whose spirits may be called upon to enter into the present to resolve problems and to heal illness. Music performance provides a vital means of communicating with these ancestral spirits, thus of evoking the pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Emoff, Ron (Director, Producer, Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Montpelier, VT : Multicultural Media, 2004.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Folk music > Madagascar > History and criticism.
Spirit possession > Madagascar > Rites and ceremonies.
Ancestor worship > Madagascar > Rites and ceremonies.
Madagascar.
Possession par les esprits > Madagascar > Rites et cérémonies.
Morts > Culte > Madagascar > Rites et cérémonies.
Folk music
Madagascar
documentary film.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Documentary films
Ethnographic films
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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