The possessed and the dispossessed : spirits, identity, and power in a Madagascar migrant town /
"This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural community demonstrates that spirit possession reflects in microcosm many of the contradictions of daily life in a plantation economy. Female spirit mediums - a group heretofore assumed to be marginal - are in fact powerful and honored heale...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1996, ©1993.
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| Series: | Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ;
no. 37. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Possession, Identity, and Power: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
- Critical Approaches to the Study of Affliction
- Investigating Possession: Social Change, Marginality, and Religious Experience
- Logic and Methods of Inquiry
- pt. I. Historic, Political-Economic, and Social Levels of Experience
- 2. Political Economy of the Sambirano
- Ambanja, a Plantation Community
- Economic and Political History of the Region
- Local Power and Reactions to Colonialism
- 3. National and Local Factions: The Nature of Polyculturalism in Ambanja
- National Factions: Regionalism and Cultural Stereotypes
- Social and Cultural Divisions in Ambanja
- Effects of Polyculturalism
- 4. Tera-Tany and Vahiny: Insiders and Outsiders
- Migrant Stories
- Patterns of Association and Means for Incorporation
- pt. II. Spirit Possession in the Sambirano
- 5. World of the Spirits
- ^ Dynamics of Tromba in Daily Life
- Possession Experience
- Other Members of the Spirit World
- 6. Sacred Knowledge and Local Power: Tromba and the Sambirano Economy
- Tromba as Ethnohistory
- Tromba, Wage Labor, and Economic Independence
- Tromba and Collective Power in the Sambirano
- 7. Spirit Mediumship and Social Identity
- Selfhood and Personhood in the Context of Possession
- Turning Outsiders into Insiders: Mediums' Social Networks and Personal Relationships
- Miasa ny Tromba: Mediumship as Work
- pt. III. Conflicts of Town Life
- 8. Problems and Conflicts of Town Life: The Adult World
- Malagasy Concepts of Healing
- Sickness and Death
- Work and Success
- Love and Money, Wives and Mistresses
- 9. Social World of Children
- Possessed Youth of Ambanja
- Disorder of a Fragmented World
- Children and Social Change
- 10. Exorcising the Spirits: The Alternative Therapeutics of Protestantism
- Sakalava Perceptions of Possession and Madness.
