Ritual imagination a study of tromba possession among the Betsimisaraka in eastern Madagascar /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nielssen, Hilde
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Series:Studies on religion in Africa ; 40.
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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.