Ritual imagination : a study of tromba possession among the Betsimisaraka in eastern Madagascar / / by Hilde Nielssen.
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| Superior document: | Studies of religion in Africa, v. 40 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies on religion in Africa ;
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| Physical Description: | xi, 326 p. :; col. ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- The village
- The Betsimisaraka, history and the spread of tromba
- Localising tromba
- A spirit world of movement and change
- Making connections: spirits, persons and places
- Tromba nights of clapping, song and dance
- The judgement bath
- Tromba and the radical imaginary
- Tromba, translocality and the magic of the Malagasy nation
- Epilogue: magic and political imagination.