{"product_id":"island-in-the-stream-9781487503918","title":"Island in the Stream","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIsland in the Stream\u003c\/em\u003e introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial backwater to a full département of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within France rather than joining the independent republic of the Comoros. The Malagasy-speaking Muslim villagers Michael Lambek encountered in 1975 practiced subsistence cultivation and lived without roads, schools, electricity, or running water; today they are educated citizens of the EU who travel regularly to metropolitan France and beyond. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering a series of ethnographic slices of life across time, \u003cem\u003eIsland in the Stream\u003c\/em\u003e highlights community members' ethical engagement in their own history as they looked to the futu\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187719659863,"sku":"9781487503918","price":53.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/island-in-the-stream-9781487503918","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}