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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, [2002], ©2002.
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| Text | Request in advance | ML3760 .E47 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 241 pages : illustrations, map, music; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Music/culture
- Uniform Title
- Music/culture.
- Subjects
- Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) > Madagascar > Toamasina (Province) > Music
- Antandroy (Malagasy people) > Madagascar > Toamasina (Province) > Music
- Folk music > Madagascar > Toamasina (Province) > History and criticism
- Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) > Madagascar > Toamasina (Province) > Rites and ceremonies
- Toamasina (Madagascar : Province) > Religious life and customs
- Ancestor worship > Madagascar > Toamasina (Province)
- Antandroy (Malagasy people) > Madagascar > Toamasina (Province) > Rites and ceremonies
- Spirit possession > Madagascar > Toamasina (Province)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-232) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introductions -- 2. Some Background on Tamatave -- 3. Spirit Practices on the East Coast -- 4. Maresaka -- 5. Material Media of Maresaka: The Value in Things -- 6. Recollecting -- 7. Power, Resistance? Valses -- 8. Clinton, Bush, and Hussein in Tamatave -- 9. Style as Iconicity of Aesthetics -- 10. Discourse on Illness, Healing, and Abnormality -- 11. Imagining Antandroy in Tamatave-ville -- 12. Retour -- Glossary of Malagasy Terms.
- ISBN
- 0819564990 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0819565008 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001005368
- OCLC
- ocm47922731
- SCSB-4262581
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries