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MY - University of Toronto Press Cohabiting with Spirits The Biography of a
Book SynopsisPossession aptly describes the explicit manifestations of spirits when they temporarily displace individuals by assuming control of their bodies and minds, but the word does not account for what it means to cohabit with them. Cohabiting with Spirits offers an intimate portrait of the intertwined lives of a married couple together with the various spirits who came to possess each of them. Set against the backdrop of the island of Mayotte during the twentieth century, the book paints a vivid picture of the couple’s lives, navigating the demands of their respective spirits while practising an art of cohabitation, both with the spirits and with each other.While studies of spirit possession often focus on ceremonial practices and dramatic performances of spirit mediums in trance, Michael Lambek shifts the focus to explore what it can be like to cohabit with spirits. The book examines the ways in which various spirits entered the lives of this married couple and how
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Fordham University Press Ordinary Ethics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a major contribution that has about it the excitement that comes with addressing genuinely fresh issues. Examining the ethics of everyday life as they are embodied in speech and other kinds of action, its contributors stake out an important new area of research. Certain to have a great impact on anthropology, this is book that should also be widely read by those in all fields who take ethics to be an important topic of study." -- -Joel Robbins University of California, San Diego "A forceful demonstration of what anthropology has to contribute to debates about ethics within moral philosophy." -- -Charles Hirschkind University of California, Berkeley
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University of Toronto Press Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte
Book SynopsisOn the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, on local forms of religious and therapeutic practice, on social accountability, and on the place of explicit forms of knowledge in the analysis of non-western societies.The "objectified" textual knowledge characteristic of Islam and of cosmology is contrasted with the "embodied" knowledge of spirit possession. Lambek emphasizes the power and authority constituted by each discipline, as well as the challenge that each kind of knowledge presents to the others and their resolution in daily practice. "Disciplines" are defined as an organized body of practitioners or adepts, a concept precise and useful when applied to the c
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University of Toronto Press Behind the Glass
Book SynopsisPart family history, part memoir, Behind the Glass tells the story behind the famous Villa Tugendhat.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Part I: House and Family 1. People Who Live in Glass Houses 2. Writing the Family Part II: Family and Firm 3. Before Löw-Beers 4. Founding the Firm 5. The Patriarch and His Siblings 6. The Sister Wives 7. The Double Cousins, before the War 8. Departures and After 9. The Patriarch’s Son Part III: Grete and Her World 10. Grete and Her Family, in Former Times 11. Grete and Her Family, the War Years 12. Grete and Her Family, after the War 13. The Philosophers: Helene Weiss, Käte Victorius, Ernst Tugendhat, Martin Heidegger 14. Tugendhat, after Heidegger Part IV: The Family Regrouped and Represented 15. The Reunion 16. Reconciliations in Brno 17. Looking Back: Conundrums of Identity and Representation Notes Timeline Acknowledgments Index
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MY - University of Toronto Press Cohabiting with Spirits The Biography of a
Book SynopsisPossession aptly describes the explicit manifestations of spirits when they temporarily displace individuals by assuming control of their bodies and minds, but the word does not account for what it means to cohabit with them. Cohabiting with Spirits offers an intimate portrait of the intertwined lives of a married couple together with the various spirits who came to possess each of them. Set against the backdrop of the island of Mayotte during the twentieth century, the book paints a vivid picture of the couple’s lives, navigating the demands of their respective spirits while practising an art of cohabitation, both with the spirits and with each other.While studies of spirit possession often focus on ceremonial practices and dramatic performances of spirit mediums in trance, Michael Lambek shifts the focus to explore what it can be like to cohabit with spirits. The book examines the ways in which various spirits entered the lives of this married couple and how
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
Book SynopsisA Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. Updated in its second edition, this volume examines numerous aspects of religion in a diversity of cultures and expands upon the idea of what we mean by religion', linking it to some of the broader questions of culture and politics. Collects classic and contemporary articles from the major thinkers in both North American and British anthropology Emphasizes the ongoing conversation among anthropologists with respect to central questions of religious behavior Presents comprehensive coverage of theory and religious practice, through time and ethnographic regions, integrated by editorial commentary Includes additional classic pieces by Pouillon, Burridge, and Meyerhoff, as well as more contemporary work by Harding, De Boeck, and Palmié Includes indexed bibliography arranged according to boTrade Review"Michael Lambek has succeeded in putting together an impressive collection of key texts and essays." (Culture and Religion, July 2009) "The most comprehensive anthology on its subject, this is a splendid tool for teaching and a matchless scholarly resource." (International Review of Biblical Studies, 2008) Praise for the first edition: "[A] reader that ambitiously attempts to represent the full breadth, depth, and complexity of anthropology's investigations into religion.... The masterly general introduction situates this anthology within the long and often difficult anthropological engagement with this most mystified and powerful realm of social action.... [A]n excellent text." (International Social Science Review) "A major guide to both the history of the anthropology of religion and new trends in research.... Lambek has compiled an excellent anthology." (Journal of Empirical Theology) Table of ContentsPreface to Second Edition xi General Introduction 1 Part I The Context of Understanding and Debate 19 Opening Frameworks 21 Introduction 21 1 Religion in Primitive Culture 23Edward Burnett Tylor 2 The Elementary Forms of Religious Life 34Emile Durkheim 3 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 48Max Weber 4 Religion as a Cultural System 57Clifford Geertz Skeptical Rejoinders 77Introduction 77 5 Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough 79Ludwig Wittgenstein 6 Religion, Totemism and Symbolism 82W. E. H. Stanner 7 Remarks on the Verb “To Believe” 90Jean Pouillon 8 Christians as Believers 97Malcolm Ruel 9 The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category 110Talal Asad Part II Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds 127 Signs and Symbols 129Introduction 129 10 The Logic of Signs and Symbols 131Susanne K. Langer 11 The Problem of Symbols 139E. E. Evans-Pritchard 12 On Key Symbols 151Sherry B. Ortner 13 The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol 160Eric R. Wolf Structure, Function, and Interpretation 167 Introduction 167 14 Myth in Primitive Psychology 168Bronislaw Malinowski 15 Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture 176Marshall Sahlins 16 Land Animals, Pure and Impure 183Mary Douglas 17 A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo 196Claude Lévi-Strauss 18 Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre 206Alton L. Becker Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder 225Introduction 225 19 The Winnebago Trickster Figure 226Paul Radin 20 Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief 238Raymond C. Kelly 21 The Politics and Poetics of Transgression 253Peter Stallybrass and Allon White Conceptualizing the Cosmos 265Introduction 265 22 Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual 267Alfred Gell 23 Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism 280Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Part III Praxis: Religious Action 299 The Movement in Ritual: Emergence 301Introduction 301 24 The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action 302Godfrey Lienhardt 25 Form and Meaning of Magical Acts 311Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah 26 Liminality and Communitas 326Victor Turner Gender, Subjectivity, and the Body 341 Introduction 341 27 “Jewish Comes Up in You from the Roots” 342Barbara Myerhoff 28 Fate in Relation to the Social Structure 350Meyer Fortes 29 Medusa’s Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience 356Gananath Obeyesekere 30 Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance 368Janice Boddy 31 The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination 386Dennis Tedlock What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order 397 Introduction 397 32 The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process 398Maurice Bloch 33 Enactments of Meaning 410Roy A. Rappaport Part IV Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change 429 Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict 431 Introduction 431 34 New Heaven, New Earth 432Kenelm Burridge 35 The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil’s Labor and the Baptism of Money 447Michael Taussig 36 The Colonization of Consciousness 464John and Jean Comaroff 37 Convicted by the Holy Spirit: The Rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist Conversion 479Susan F. Harding 38 On Being Shege in Kinshasa: Children, the Occult and the Street 495Filip De Boeck Religious Ethics and Politics in the State, Public Sphere, and Transnational Scene 507Introduction 507 39 Civil Religion in America 509Robert N. Bellah 40 Shamanic Practices and the State in Northern Asia: Views from the Center and Periphery 519Caroline Humphrey 41 “Using the Past to Negate the Present”: Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China 533Mayfair Mei-hui Yang 42 Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo 544Charles Hirschkind 43 Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains 560Anne Vallely 44 Candomblé in Pink, Green and Black: Re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian Religious Heritage in the Public Sphere of Salvador, Bahia 573Mattijs van de Port 45 Martyr vs. Martyr: The Sacred Language of Violence 590Galit Hasan-Rokem Afterword 597 46 Evidence and Presence, Spectral and Other 598Stephan Palmié Part V Research Tools 611 A Guide to the Literature 613 Bibliography 630 Index 673
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The University of Chicago Press The Ethical Condition Essays on Action Person
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Cambridge University Press Human Spirits
Book SynopsisThis book describes and interprets trance behaviour among the Malagasy speakers of Mayotte. The author argues that trance can best be understood as a social activity rather than as a psychological problem or a means of manipulating others. This book should be of particular interest to those concerned with the study of ritual, symbols and non-Western religious systems.Table of ContentsList of tables and figures; Preface: cultural zero; Acknowledgements; Stylistic conventions; Introduction; Part I. Spirits and Hosts in Mayotte: 1. An overview of Mayotte society; 2. Who the spirits are not: possession and Islam; 3. The nature of spirits: first approximations; 4. The incidence of trance; 5. Possession as a system of communication; Part II. The Syntagmatic Dimension: 6. Negotiation and energence: the case of Habiba; 7. Medicine and transformation: the case of Habiba continued; 8. The hidden name: the case of Rukia; 9. Of affines and annunciations; Part III. The Paradigmatic Dimension: 10. The trumba spirits; 11. The world of possession; 12. The spirits as children; Conclusion; Appendix: Additional classes of possession spirits in Mayotte; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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University of Chicago Press The Ethical Condition Essays on Action Person
Book SynopsisWritten over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is at heart an ethical one-we may not always be good or just, but we are always subject to their criteria. Detailing Lambek's trajectory as one anthropologist thinking deeply throughout a career on the nature of ethical life, the essays accumulate into a vibrant demonstration of the relevance of ethics as a practice and its crucial importance to ethnography, social theory, and philosophy. Organized chronologically, the essays begin among Malagasy speakers on the island of Mayotte and in northwest Madagascar. Building from ethnographic accounts there, they synthesize Aristotelian notions of practical judgment and virtuous action with Wittgensteinian notions of the ordinariness of ethical life and the importance of language, everyday speech, and ritual in order to understand how ethics are lived. They illustrate the multiple ways in which ethics informs personhood, character, and practice; explore the centrality of judgment, action, and irony to ethical life; and consider the relation of virtue to value. The result is a fully fleshed-out picture of ethics as a deeply rooted aspect of the human experience.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
Book SynopsisA Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. Updated in its second edition, this volume examines numerous aspects of religion in a diversity of cultures and expands upon the idea of what we mean by religion', linking it to some of the broader questions of culture and politics. Collects classic and contemporary articles from the major thinkers in both North American and British anthropology Emphasizes the ongoing conversation among anthropologists with respect to central questions of religious behavior Presents comprehensive coverage of theory and religious practice, through time and ethnographic regions, integrated by editorial commentary Includes additional classic pieces by Pouillon, Burridge, and Meyerhoff, as well as more contemporary work by Harding, De Boeck, and Palmié Includes indexed bibliography arranged according to boTrade Review"Michael Lambek has succeeded in putting together an impressive collection of key texts and essays." (Culture and Religion, July 2009) "The most comprehensive anthology on its subject, this is a splendid tool for teaching and a matchless scholarly resource." (International Review of Biblical Studies, 2008) Praise for the first edition: "[A] reader that ambitiously attempts to represent the full breadth, depth, and complexity of anthropology's investigations into religion.... The masterly general introduction situates this anthology within the long and often difficult anthropological engagement with this most mystified and powerful realm of social action.... [A]n excellent text." (International Social Science Review) "A major guide to both the history of the anthropology of religion and new trends in research.... Lambek has compiled an excellent anthology." (Journal of Empirical Theology) Table of ContentsPreface to Second Edition xi General Introduction 1 Part I The Context of Understanding and Debate 19 Opening Frameworks 21 Introduction 21 1 Religion in Primitive Culture 23Edward Burnett Tylor 2 The Elementary Forms of Religious Life 34Emile Durkheim 3 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 48Max Weber 4 Religion as a Cultural System 57Clifford Geertz Skeptical Rejoinders 77Introduction 77 5 Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough 79Ludwig Wittgenstein 6 Religion, Totemism and Symbolism 82W. E. H. Stanner 7 Remarks on the Verb “To Believe” 90Jean Pouillon 8 Christians as Believers 97Malcolm Ruel 9 The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category 110Talal Asad Part II Poiesis: The Composition of Religious Worlds 127 Signs and Symbols 129Introduction 129 10 The Logic of Signs and Symbols 131Susanne K. Langer 11 The Problem of Symbols 139E. E. Evans-Pritchard 12 On Key Symbols 151Sherry B. Ortner 13 The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Mexican National Symbol 160Eric R. Wolf Structure, Function, and Interpretation 167 Introduction 167 14 Myth in Primitive Psychology 168Bronislaw Malinowski 15 Folk Dialectics of Nature and Culture 176Marshall Sahlins 16 Land Animals, Pure and Impure 183Mary Douglas 17 A Jivaro Version of Totem and Taboo 196Claude Lévi-Strauss 18 Text-Building, Epistemology, and Aesthetics in Javanese Shadow Theatre 206Alton L. Becker Moral Inversions and Spaces of Disorder 225Introduction 225 19 The Winnebago Trickster Figure 226Paul Radin 20 Witchcraft and Sexual Relations: An Exploration in the Social and Semantic Implications of the Structure of Belief 238Raymond C. Kelly 21 The Politics and Poetics of Transgression 253Peter Stallybrass and Allon White Conceptualizing the Cosmos 265Introduction 265 22 Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual 267Alfred Gell 23 Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism 280Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Part III Praxis: Religious Action 299 The Movement in Ritual: Emergence 301Introduction 301 24 The Control of Experience: Symbolic Action 302Godfrey Lienhardt 25 Form and Meaning of Magical Acts 311Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah 26 Liminality and Communitas 326Victor Turner Gender, Subjectivity, and the Body 341 Introduction 341 27 “Jewish Comes Up in You from the Roots” 342Barbara Myerhoff 28 Fate in Relation to the Social Structure 350Meyer Fortes 29 Medusa’s Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience 356Gananath Obeyesekere 30 Spirits and Selves in Northern Sudan: The Cultural Therapeutics of Possession and Trance 368Janice Boddy 31 The Poetics of Time in Mayan Divination 386Dennis Tedlock What Ritual Does: The Foundations of Order 397 Introduction 397 32 The Disconnection between Power and Rank as a Process 398Maurice Bloch 33 Enactments of Meaning 410Roy A. Rappaport Part IV Historical Dynamics: Power, Modernity, and Change 429 Capitalism, Colonialism, Christianity, and Conflict 431 Introduction 431 34 New Heaven, New Earth 432Kenelm Burridge 35 The Genesis of Capitalism amongst a South American Peasantry: Devil’s Labor and the Baptism of Money 447Michael Taussig 36 The Colonization of Consciousness 464John and Jean Comaroff 37 Convicted by the Holy Spirit: The Rhetoric of Fundamental Baptist Conversion 479Susan F. Harding 38 On Being Shege in Kinshasa: Children, the Occult and the Street 495Filip De Boeck Religious Ethics and Politics in the State, Public Sphere, and Transnational Scene 507Introduction 507 39 Civil Religion in America 509Robert N. Bellah 40 Shamanic Practices and the State in Northern Asia: Views from the Center and Periphery 519Caroline Humphrey 41 “Using the Past to Negate the Present”: Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China 533Mayfair Mei-hui Yang 42 Passional Preaching, Aural Sensibility, and the Islamic Revival in Cairo 544Charles Hirschkind 43 Moral Landscapes: Ethical Discourses among Orthodox and Diaspora Jains 560Anne Vallely 44 Candomblé in Pink, Green and Black: Re-scripting the Afro-Brazilian Religious Heritage in the Public Sphere of Salvador, Bahia 573Mattijs van de Port 45 Martyr vs. Martyr: The Sacred Language of Violence 590Galit Hasan-Rokem Afterword 597 46 Evidence and Presence, Spectral and Other 598Stephan Palmié Part V Research Tools 611 A Guide to the Literature 613 Bibliography 630 Index 673
£35.10
Cambridge University Press Bodies and Persons
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Taylor & Francis Tense Past Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory
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Cambridge University Press Bodies and Persons
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The University of Michigan Press Ecology and the Sacred
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University of Toronto Press Island in the Stream
Book SynopsisIsland in the Stream 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. Offering a series of ethnographic slices of life across time, Island in the Stream highlights community members'' ethical engagement in their own history as they looked to the fuTrade Review"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 *Table of ContentsList 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
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University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Island in the Stream
Book SynopsisIsland in the Stream 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. Offering a series of ethnographic slices of life across time, Island in the Stream highlights community members' ethical engagement in their own history as they looked to the futu
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Berghahn Books, Incorporated Illness and Irony: On the Ambiguity of Suffering
Book Synopsis Theories of illness and therapy since Freud have included the possibility that sufferers are complicit in their conditions. The studies in this volume explore the ways in which illness and therapy may be characterized as sites at which ironies of the human condition are produced, encountered, acknowledged – or discounted in favor of more literal readings. They ask what these sites can teach us about questions of human agency and about the broader importance of irony for theory. Encompassing a variety of perspectives, the contributors included in Illness and Irony apply theories of irony to a myriad of cultural contexts, ranging from Freud’s consulting room and the Lacanian clinics of Buenos Aires to fright illness in a Yemeni village and spirit possession on the island of Mayotte. An introductory chapter by Michael Lambek establishes a contextual viewpoint on irony, arising from the writings of Thomas Mann, Alexander Nehamas and others. Vincent Crapanzano concludes the volume by linking the contributions to current debates about irony in rhetoric, linguistics and comparative literature.Trade Review "... this fine collection of essays ... offer[s] a more radical critique of anthropological practice than any one of their authors is likely to admit." · (From the Afterword by Vincent Crapanzano) “…whether one considers the volume as a whole, or simply enjoys the insightful analyses provided by each of these (deceptively) brief essays, [this volume]offers a rich meditation on its subject matter.” · Ethnos Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Irony and Illness-Recognition and Refusal Michael Lambek Chapter 1. Scared Sick or Silly? Anne Meneley Chapter 2. Rheumatic Irony: Questions of Agency and Self-deception as Refracted through the Art of Living with Spirits Michael Lambek Chapter 3. Barbaric Custom and Colonial Science: Teaching the Female Body in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Janice Boddy Chapter 4. The Lacan Ward: Pharmacology and Subjectivity in Buenos Aires Andrew Lakoff Chapter 5. Illness as Irony in Psychoanalysis Paul Antze Chapter 6. Is Treating Dementia Ironic? Lawrence Cohen Afterword incent Crapanzano Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
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Brill Contest for Land in Madagascar: Environment, Ancestors and Development
Book SynopsisThe Malagasy possess a profound religious, socio-political and economic attachment to land which connects individuals and kinship groups with the ancestors. International stakeholders value Madagascar for its biodiversity, minerals and agricultural potential, while the Malagasy state views land as the necessary platform for its economic development. This collection presents original research by established and rising scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including Human Genetics, Anthropology and History. Authors focus on land as the pivotal factor underlying the economic, social and religious structures of Malagasy society and its relationship with outsiders, aiming to provide new insights into the issues underlying Madagascar’s ongoing economic and political malaise.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Land Competition and Human-Environment Relations in Madagascar Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Gwyn Campbell and Michael Lambek The Genetic Trail to Madagascar Himla Soodyall, Bharti Morar and Trefor Jenkins Don’t we all Want a World Filled with “Bright Faces” and “Fat-Cheeked Babies”? Creating the State and Crafting Ideology in Eighteenth Century Imerina Victor Raharijaona and Susan Kus Forest Depletion in Imperial Madagascar, c.1790–1861 � 63 Gwyn Campbell Solving Madagascar: Science, Illustrations, and the Normalizing of Fauna of Nineteenth Century Madagascar Tom Anderson Lex Loci meets Lex Fori: Merging Customary Law and National Land Legislation in Madagascar Sandra J.T.M. Evers Land Rights and Alien Plants in Dryland Madagascar Karen Middleton Parenting through Boom and Bust in a Northern Malagasy Mining Town Andrew Walsh Discourse, Development and Legitimacy: Nature/Culture Dualism of Mining Engagements in Biodiversity Offsetting and Conservation in Madagascar Caroline Seagle How the Daewoo Attempted Land Acquisition Contributed to Madagascar’ Political Crisis in 2009 Venusia Vinciguerra Index
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