The Earth Shakers of Madagascar: An Anthropological Study of Authority, Fertility and Creation

by Oliver Woolley

Overview

An analysis of how the complex rituals of Sahafatra culture are used to transform a once barren landscape into agricultural land.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000322989
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/29/2020
Series:	LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Oliver Woolley recently completed his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Table of Contents

Introduction: the wasteland and its people and history; the bigger picture - background and theory; the authority system in the wasteland; competing idioms of power; testing - the process of becoming a senior panjaka; the potency of the panjaka; the 'raising up' of the panjaka as human alchemy; funerary and commemorative practices; conclusion: composite power and the cult of creation.