Island in the Stream

Michael Lambek is a professor and Canada Research Chair emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.Michael D. Jackson is a New Zealand poet and anthropologist who has taught in anthropology departments at Massey University, the Australian National University, Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of Copenhagen. He is a religion professor at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA, USA.

"It is clear that Lambek’s way of relating to ‘his’ islanders – giving full scope to emotions and mutual efforts toward understanding – and his special talent in relating such small-scale events to wide philosophical horizons have produced another beautiful book, opening up new perspectives on time and how people – both anthropologists but also ‘their’ people – can deal with time."- Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam (Anthropologica)

• List of FiguresForeword by Michael JacksonNote on OrthographyGlossaryPreface Part One: Prelude1 Introduction: The Presence of History2 Village Life: Kinship, Community, and Islam, 1975 and After3 Founding the Villages, before 1975Part Two: Exchange, Celebration, Ceremony, through 19954 Citizenship and Sociality: Practising Equality, 1975–19765 Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte: The Structure and Destructuring of a Cultural System, 1975–19856 Localizing Islamic Performances in Mayotte, 1975–1995Part Three: Dancing to the Music of Time, through 20017 Choking on the Qur’an and Other Consuming Parables, 1975–19928 Nuriaty, the Saint, and the Sultan: Virtuous Subject and Subjective Virtuoso of the Postmodern Colony, to 19959 The Saint, the Sea Monster, and an Invitation to a Dîner-dansant, to 200110 On the Move, through 2001Part Four: Contingent Conviviality, through 201511 Marriage and Moral Horizons, 201512 Present Horizons, 201513 Summation: Mariam’s MirrorAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesCreditsIndex