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| Authors: Henry T. Wright, David Hurvitz, Manassé Esoavelomandroso, Fulgence Fanony, and Jacques Lombard. |
| Editors: Conrad Phillip Kottak, Jean-Aime Rakotoarisoa, Aidan Southall, and Pierre Vérin. |
| Additional Contributors: Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Gerald M. Berg, Hélène Ratrimoharinosy, Maurice Bloch, Janine Razafindratovo-Ramamonjisoa, Narivelo Rajoanarimanana, Richard Huntington, Karl Eggert, William J. G. Gardenier, and B. F. Baré. |
| ISBN-10: 0-89089-252-0 (0890892520) |
| ISBN-13: 978-0-89089-252-7 (9780890892527) |
| Language: English |
| No. of Pages: vi + 443 |
| Dimensions: 162mm x 237mm x 35mm |
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| Item Identification Code (UID#): 1878 |
| Shelving Location: Ethnography & Ethnology |
| Estimated Value: £12.00 |
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Madagascar
Society and History
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Carolina Academic Press / Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (1986).
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Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket
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Most of the papers in this volume were originally prepared for the Burg Wartenstein Symposium No. 83, Human Adjustment in Time and Space in Madagascar, supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Malagasy, French, British and American scholars give accounts of archeology, ecology, history, ethnicity, kingship, ritual and social change in Madagascar.
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- Contents
- Introduction (Conrad Phillip Kottak)
- Abstracts
- PART I. History, Adaptation, and the State
- Origines malgaches: histoire culturelle et archéologie de Madagascar, mise au point et commentaire (Pierre Vérin)
- Early Communities on the Island of Maore and the Coasts of Madagascar (Henry T. Wright)
- Principaux aspects des formes d'adaptation de la société traditionelle Malgache (J. A. Rakotoarisoa)
- The "Anjoaty" and Embouchures in Madagascar (David Hurvitz)
- Milieu naturel et peuplement de l'Androy (Manassé Esoavelomandroso)
- A propos des Mikea (Fulgence Fanony)
- Le temps et l'espace dans l'idéologie politique de la Royauté Sakalava-menabe (Jacques Lombard)
- Ritual and Work in Madagascar (Gillian Feeley-Harnik)
- Royal Authority and the Protector System in Nineteenth-Century Imerina (Gerald M. Berg)
- La Société Malgache vers 1800 (Hélène Ratrimoharinosy)
- PART II. Varieties of Kinship and Social Organization
- Hierarchy and Equality in Merina Kinship (Maurice Bloch)
- Ilafy: terre et parenté (Janine Razafindratovo-Ramamonjisoa)
- Quelques traits de ]'organisation sociale des Betsileo du Manandriana (Narivelo Rajaonarimanana)
- Faliarivo and the Model of Malagasy Kinship (Aidan Southall)
- Kinship Modeling: Adaptation, Fosterage, and Fictive Kinship among the Betsileo (Conrad Phillip Kottak)
- The Transformation of the Bara Rural Economy (Richard Huntington)
- Mahafaly as Misnomer (Karl Eggert)
- Divination and Kinship among the Sakalava of West Madagascar (William J. G. Gardenier)
- L'Organisation sociale Sakalava du Nord: une récapitulation (J. F. Baré)
- Funerals and Social Change in Mayotte (Michael Lambek and Jon H. Breslar)
- Common Themes in Malagasy Culture (Aidan Southall)
- Bibliography
- Index
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