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

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

Ritual Imagination is a study of spirit possession and ritual dynamics. Based on fieldwork in eastern Madagascar, Hilde Nielssen shows how tromba possession works as a flexible and fluid force, whose ritual imaginary playfully draws together elements from radically different cultural and social doma...

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Main Author: Nielssen, Hilde.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Studies of Religion in Africa 40.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223301.

Subjects:

Spirit possession > Madagascar.
Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) > Religion.
Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) > Social life and customs.
Cults > Madagascar.
RELIGION / Ethnic & Tribal.

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Call Number: BL2480.B49 N54 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Appendix I The Spirits' Ethnic Origin, Kind, Gender and Age
  • Appendix II The Mediums and their Spirits
  • Appendix III Extracts of Conversations with Spirits-Malagasy Version
  • Appendix IV Tromba Vocabulary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.