Oliver Woolley

The Earth Shakers of Madagascar (eBook, ePUB)

An Anthropological Study of Authority, Fertility and Creation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of how the complex rituals of Sahafatra culture are used to transform a once barren landscape into agricultural land.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000322989
• Artikelnr.: 60067397

Autorenporträt

Oliver Woolley recently completed his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the wasteland and its people and history
the bigger picture - background and theory
the authority system in the wasteland
competing idioms of power
testing - the process of becoming a senior panjaka
the potency of the panjaka
the 'raising up' of the panjaka as human alchemy
funerary and commemorative practices
conclusion: composite power and the cult of creation.