Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar

Material Signs and Traces of the Dead

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Nineteenth-century highland Madagascar was a place inhabited by the dead as much as the living. Ghosts, ancestors and the possessed were important historical actors alongside local kings and queens, soldiers, traders and missionaries. This book considers the challenges that such actors pose for historical accounts of the past and for thinking about questions of presence and representation. How were the dead made present, and how were they recognized or not? In attending to these multifarious encounters of the nineteenth century, how might we reflect on the ways in which our own history-writing makes the dead present? To tackle these questions, Zoë Crossland tells an anthropological history of highland Madagascar from a perspective rooted in archaeology and Peircean semiotics, as well as in landscape study, oral history and textual sources.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-02-17
Mått:185 x 260 x 28 mm
Vikt:980 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:394
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107036093

Utforska kategorier

Arkeologiska perioder och områden inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

'From fires to missionary history to stone monuments to ghost stories, Crossland paints a Malagasy history that is as alive as the world in which these encounters occurred.' Carla Klehm, Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

Innehållsförteckning

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.