Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar: Material Signs and Traces of the Dead

by Zoe Crossland

Nineteenth-century highland Madagascar was a place inhabited by the dead as much as the living. Ghosts, ancestors and the possessed were important historical actors alongside local kings and queens, soldiers, traders and missionaries. This book considers the challenges that such actors pose for writing history, and draws on archaeology, landscape study, oral history and textual sources to trace the many encounters between living and dead.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107036097
• ISBN13: 9781107036093
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 10.1"