TY - BOOK ID - 68481809 TI - Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead PY - 2014 SN - 9781107036093 1107036097 9781139565882 9781461955047 1461955041 1139565885 9781107468542 110746854X 9781107465046 1107465044 1107461316 9781107461314 1139889761 9781139889766 1107459257 9781107459250 1107473152 9781107473157 1107472148 9781107472143 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Ethnology KW - Semiotics KW - Dead KW - Landscapes KW - Merina (Malagasy people) KW - Missions KW - Ethnology. KW - Missions. KW - Religion. KW - Semiotics. KW - Religious aspects. KW - Symbolic aspects KW - Symbolic aspects. KW - 1800-1899. KW - Madagascar KW - Imerina (Madagascar) KW - Madagascar. KW - History KW - Religion KW - Antimerina (Malagasy people) KW - Hova (Malagasy people) KW - Hovas KW - Imerina (Malagasy people) KW - Ovah (Malagasy people) KW - Countryside KW - Landscape KW - Natural scenery KW - Scenery KW - Scenic landscapes KW - Nature KW - Dead (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) KW - Semeiotics KW - Semiology (Linguistics) KW - Semantics KW - Signs and symbols KW - Structuralism (Literary analysis) KW - Imerina, Madagascar KW - Emyrne (Madagascar) KW - Imaïrne (Madagascar) KW - Madagaskar KW - Democratic Republic of Madagascar KW - Repoblika Demokratika n'i Madagaskar KW - Repoblika Demokratika Malagasy KW - République démocratique de Madagascar KW - RDM KW - Repoblikan'i Madagasikara KW - République de Madagascar KW - Repoblikan'i Madakasikara KW - Madagasikara KW - Republic of Madagascar KW - マダガスカル KW - Madagasukaru KW - מדגסקר KW - Malagasy Republic UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68481809 AB - Nineteenth-century highland Madagascar was a place inhabited by the dead as much as the living. Ghosts, ancestors and the possessed were important historical actors alongside local kings and queens, soldiers, traders and missionaries. This book considers the challenges that such actors pose for historical accounts of the past and for thinking about questions of presence and representation. How were the dead made present, and how were they recognized or not? In attending to these multifarious encounters of the nineteenth century, how might we reflect on the ways in which our own history-writing makes the dead present? To tackle these questions, Zoë Crossland tells an anthropological history of highland Madagascar from a perspective rooted in archaeology and Peircean semiotics, as well as in landscape study, oral history and textual sources. ER -