{"product_id":"ancestral-encounters-in-highland-madagascar-material-signs-and-traces-of-the-dead-1107036097","title":"Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar: Material Signs and Traces of the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1107036097\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Crossland, Zo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-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 historical accounts of the past and for thinking about questions of presence and representation. How were the dead made present, and how were they recognized or not? In attending to these multifarious encounters of the nineteenth century, how might we reflect on the ways in which our own history-writing makes the dead present? To tackle these questions, Zo Crossland tells an anthropological history of highland Madagascar from a perspective rooted in archaeology and Peircean semiotics, as well as in landscape study, oral history, and textual sources.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51893824291104,"sku":"NEW1107036097","price":64.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61AudSFatsL.jpg?v=1782009130","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/ancestral-encounters-in-highland-madagascar-material-signs-and-traces-of-the-dead-1107036097","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}