The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town - Couverture souple

Livre 12 sur 15: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care

Sharp, Lesley A. A.

 
9780520207080: The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520207084 ISBN 13 : 9780520207080
Editeur : University of California Press, 1996

Synopsis

This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants and migrant laborers who work the land in this plantation economy. In fact, Sharp's wide-ranging analysis shows that tromba, or spirit possession, is central to understanding the complex identities of insiders and outsiders in this community, which draws people from all over the island and abroad.

Sharp's study also reveals the contradictions between indigenous healing and Western-derived Protestant healing and psychiatry. Particular attention to the significance of migrant women's and children's experiences in a context of seeking relief from personal and social ills gives Sharp's investigation importance for gender studies as well as for studies in medical anthropology, Africa and Madagascar, the politics of culture, and religion and ritual.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lesley A. Sharp is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Butler University.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520207084
ISBN 13 
9780520207080
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780520080010: The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0520080017 ISBN 13 :  9780520080010
Editeur : University of California Press, 1994
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