1st Edition
The Earth Shakers of Madagascar An Anthropological Study of Authority, Fertility and Creation
By Oliver Woolley
Copyright 2002
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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An analysis of how the complex rituals of Sahafatra culture are used to transform a once barren landscape into agricultural land.
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.
Biography
Oliver Woolley recently completed his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science
