{"product_id":"island-in-the-stream-9781487522995","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 fu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003cem\u003eAnthropologica\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures Foreword by Michael Jackson Note on Orthography Glossary Preface  Part One: Prelude 1 Introduction: The Presence of History 2 Village Life: Kinship, Community, and Islam, 1975 and After 3 Founding the Villages, before 1975   Part Two: Exchange, Celebration, Ceremony, through 1995 4 Citizenship and Sociality: Practising Equality, 1975–1976 5 Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte: The Structure and Destructuring of a Cultural System, 1975–1985 6 Localizing Islamic Performances in Mayotte, 1975–1995   Part Three: Dancing to the Music of Time, through 2001 7 Choking on the Qur’an and Other Consuming Parables, 1975–1992 8 Nuriaty, the Saint, and the Sultan: Virtuous Subject and Subjective Virtuoso of the Postmodern Colony, to 1995 9 The Saint, the Sea Monster, and an Invitation to a Dîner-dansant, to 2001 10 On the Move, through 2001   Part Four: Contingent Conviviality, through 2015 11 Marriage and Moral Horizons, 2015 12 Present Horizons, 2015 13 Summation: Mariam’s Mirror   Acknowledgments Notes References Credits Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409151697239,"sku":"9781487522995","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487522995.jpg?v=1730505654","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/island-in-the-stream-9781487522995","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}