The Weight of the Past Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar
by Lambek, MichaelFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-01-18
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
In The Weight of the Past , Michael Lambek explores the complex ways that history shapes, constrains, and enables daily life. Focusing on ritual performances of spirit mediumship in a multifaceted religious landscape, Lambek's analysis reveals the multiple ways that Sakalava "bear" history. In Mahajanga, Madagascar, to bear history is at once a weighty obligation, a creative re-birthing, a scrupulous cultivation, and an exuberant performance of the past.This book describes the division of labor, creative production, and ethical practice entailed in imagining, embodying, and serving the past. It is at once a vivid ethnography of Sakalava life and a significant intervention in anthropological debates on culture and history, structure and practice, advocating a theoretical approach informed by Aristotelian categories of understanding.
Author Biography
Michael Lambek is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte.
Table of Contents
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| Acknowledgments | xi | ||||
| Stylistic Conventions | xv | ||||
| Exchange Rates | xvii | ||||
| Glossary of Frequently Cited Words | xix | ||||
| Key Personae | xxi | ||||
| PART I A POIESIS OF HISTORY | |||||
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3 | (18) | |||
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21 | (28) | |||
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49 | (24) | |||
| PART II STRUCTURAL REMAINS: CONTEMPORARY DIVISIONS OF HISTORICAL LABOR | |||||
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73 | (24) | |||
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97 | (28) | |||
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125 | (18) | |||
| PART III SERVING THE ANCESTORS | |||||
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143 | (24) | |||
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167 | (24) | |||
| PART IV PRACTICING HISTORY | |||||
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191 | (26) | |||
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214 | (3) | |||
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217 | (20) | |||
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237 | (24) | |||
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261 | (14) | |||
| Notes | 275 | (22) | |||
| Bibliography | 297 | (16) | |||
| Index | 313 |
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