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Recollecting from the past : musical practice and spirit possession on the east coast of Madagascar

Title: Recollecting from the past : musical practice and spirit possession on the east coast of Madagascar / Ron Emoff.
Author: Emoff, Ron.
Publication: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2002.

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Description

xvi, 241 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Music/culture

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-232) and index.

Contents

Some background on Tamatave -- Spirit practices on the east coast -- Maresaka -- Material media of maresaka : the value in things -- Recollecting -- Power, resistance?, valses -- Clinton, Bush, and Hussein in Tamatave -- "Style as iconicity of aesthetics" -- Discourse on illness, healing, and abnormality -- Imagining Antandroy in Tamatave-ville -- Retour.

Call Number

JME 02-531

ISBN

0819564990 (cloth : alk. paper)
0819565008 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001005368

OCLC

vendor

Author

Emoff, Ron.

Title

Recollecting from the past : musical practice and spirit possession on the east coast of Madagascar / Ron Emoff.

Imprint

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2002.

Series

Music/culture

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-232) and index.

Research Call Number

JME 02-531

Sc E 04-13

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