Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar - Material Signs and Traces of the Dead

Informationen zum Autor Zoë Crossland is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the historical archaeology of Madagascar, as well as forensic archaeology and evidential practices around human remains. She is the co-author of A Fine and Private Place: The Archaeology of Death and Burial in Post-Medieval Britain and Ireland (with Annia Cherryson and Sarah Tarlow) and the editor of Disturbing Bodies: Perspectives on Forensic Anthropology (with Rosemary Joyce, forthcoming). Her work has appeared in American Anthropologist and Archaeological Dialogues, and is forthcoming from the Annual Review of Anthropology. She established the U.S. branch of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, an international conference devoted to discussing archaeological theory. Klappentext This book examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history. Zusammenfassung This book examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar! considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Uncertain signs and the power of the dead; 2. Recognition and misrecognition in the missionary encounter; 3. The signs of mission; 4. Conquering the Adrantsay: familiar histories; 5. Standing stones and the semeiotics of reproduction; 6. Zone Rouge: encounters on the frontier; 7. Epilogue: ghostly presences.

Product details

• Authors: Zo Crossland, Zoe Crossland, Zoë Crossland, Zoe (Columbia University Crossland, Zoee Crossland
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.02.2014
• EAN: 9781107036093
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03609-3
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 260 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Africa, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Madagascar, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Material Culture, African History, Archaeology by period / region, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards