Book contents
- Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar
- Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Center
- 1 Uncertain signs and the power of the dead
- 2 Recognition and misrecognition in the missionary encounter
- 3 The signs of mission
- Part II The Frontier
- Notes
- Glossary
- Reign of sovereigns mentioned in the text (central Imerina)
- Archival sources
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Uncertain signs and the power of the dead
from Part I - The Center
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2014
- Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar
- Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Center
- 1 Uncertain signs and the power of the dead
- 2 Recognition and misrecognition in the missionary encounter
- 3 The signs of mission
- Part II The Frontier
- Notes
- Glossary
- Reign of sovereigns mentioned in the text (central Imerina)
- Archival sources
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Ancestral Encounters in Highland MadagascarMaterial Signs and Traces of the Dead, pp. 31 - 55Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014