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Island in the Stream An Ethnographic History of Mayotte

Lambek Michael
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781487522995
Publisert
2018-10-29
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
570 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Lambek Michael
Foreword by
Jackson Michael D.

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Lambek is a professor and Canada Research Chair emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Michael D. Jackson is a New Zealand poet and anthropologist who has taught in anthropology departments at Massey University, the Australian National University, Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of Copenhagen. He is a religion professor at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Island in the Stream An Ethnographic History of Mayotte

Lambek Michael
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
Lambek Michael
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
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Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial backwater to a full département of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within France rather than joining the independent republic of the Comoros. The Malagasy-speaking Muslim villagers Michael Lambek encountered in 1975 practiced subsistence cultivation and lived without roads, schools, electricity, or running water; today they are educated citizens of the EU who travel regularly to metropolitan France and beyond. Offering a series of ethnographic slices of life across time, Island in the Stream highlights community members' ethical engagement in their own history as they looked to the future, acknowledged the past, and engaged and transformed local forms of sociality, exchange, and ritual performance. This is a unique account of the changing horizons and historical consciousness of an African community and an intimate portrait of the inhabitants and their concerns, as well as a glimpse into the changing perspective of the ethnographer.
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This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken over eleven visits across 40 years. It initiates an original genre of ethnographic history and describes people's ongoing ethical engagement with their past and future.
Les mer
List of FiguresForeword by Michael JacksonNote on OrthographyGlossaryPreface Part One: Prelude1 Introduction: The Presence of History2 Village Life: Kinship, Community, and Islam, 1975 and After3 Founding the Villages, before 1975 Part Two: Exchange, Celebration, Ceremony, through 19954 Citizenship and Sociality: Practising Equality, 1975–19765 Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte: The Structure and Destructuring of a Cultural System, 1975–19856 Localizing Islamic Performances in Mayotte, 1975–1995 Part Three: Dancing to the Music of Time, through 20017 Choking on the Qur’an and Other Consuming Parables, 1975–19928 Nuriaty, the Saint, and the Sultan: Virtuous Subject and Subjective Virtuoso of the Postmodern Colony, to 19959 The Saint, the Sea Monster, and an Invitation to a Dîner-dansant, to 200110 On the Move, through 2001 Part Four: Contingent Conviviality, through 201511 Marriage and Moral Horizons, 201512 Present Horizons, 201513 Summation: Mariam’s Mirror AcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesCreditsIndex
Les mer
"It is clear that Lambek’s way of relating to ‘his’ islanders – giving full scope to emotions and mutual efforts toward understanding – and his special talent in relating such small-scale events to wide philosophical horizons have produced another beautiful book, opening up new perspectives on time and how people – both anthropologists but also ‘their’ people – can deal with time."
Les mer
"Michael Lambek’s study of the vicissitudes of Mahorais 'in the stream of time' recognizes the importance given to Mayotte’s shifting relationship to France, culminating (for now) in Mayotte’s incorporation as a départmente d’outre-mer (DOM) of France in 2011. But Lambek is mainly concerned with how Maorais relate their changing ideas and practices of streams of times in their larger circumstances to their shifting understanding of being in the world: the nature of experience, and the relationship of experience to awareness, or consciousness, of selves and others."
Les mer

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Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial backwater to a full département of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within France rather than joining the independent republic of the Comoros. The Malagasy-speaking Muslim villagers Michael Lambek encountered in 1975 practiced subsistence cultivation and lived without roads, schools, electricity, or running water; today they are educated citizens of the EU who travel regularly to metropolitan France and beyond. Offering a series of ethnographic slices of life across time, Island in the Stream highlights community members' ethical engagement in their own history as they looked to the future, acknowledged the past, and engaged and transformed local forms of sociality, exchange, and ritual performance. This is a unique account of the changing horizons and historical consciousness of an African community and an intimate portrait of the inhabitants and their concerns, as well as a glimpse into the changing perspective of the ethnographer.
Les mer
This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken over eleven visits across 40 years. It initiates an original genre of ethnographic history and describes people's ongoing ethical engagement with their past and future.
Les mer
List of FiguresForeword by Michael JacksonNote on OrthographyGlossaryPreface Part One: Prelude1 Introduction: The Presence of History2 Village Life: Kinship, Community, and Islam, 1975 and After3 Founding the Villages, before 1975 Part Two: Exchange, Celebration, Ceremony, through 19954 Citizenship and Sociality: Practising Equality, 1975–19765 Exchange, Time, and Person in Mayotte: The Structure and Destructuring of a Cultural System, 1975–19856 Localizing Islamic Performances in Mayotte, 1975–1995 Part Three: Dancing to the Music of Time, through 20017 Choking on the Qur’an and Other Consuming Parables, 1975–19928 Nuriaty, the Saint, and the Sultan: Virtuous Subject and Subjective Virtuoso of the Postmodern Colony, to 19959 The Saint, the Sea Monster, and an Invitation to a Dîner-dansant, to 200110 On the Move, through 2001 Part Four: Contingent Conviviality, through 201511 Marriage and Moral Horizons, 201512 Present Horizons, 201513 Summation: Mariam’s Mirror AcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesCreditsIndex
Les mer
"It is clear that Lambek’s way of relating to ‘his’ islanders – giving full scope to emotions and mutual efforts toward understanding – and his special talent in relating such small-scale events to wide philosophical horizons have produced another beautiful book, opening up new perspectives on time and how people – both anthropologists but also ‘their’ people – can deal with time."
Les mer
"Michael Lambek’s study of the vicissitudes of Mahorais 'in the stream of time' recognizes the importance given to Mayotte’s shifting relationship to France, culminating (for now) in Mayotte’s incorporation as a départmente d’outre-mer (DOM) of France in 2011. But Lambek is mainly concerned with how Maorais relate their changing ideas and practices of streams of times in their larger circumstances to their shifting understanding of being in the world: the nature of experience, and the relationship of experience to awareness, or consciousness, of selves and others."
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781487522995
Publisert
2018-10-29
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
570 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Lambek Michael
Foreword by
Jackson Michael D.

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Lambek is a professor and Canada Research Chair emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Michael D. Jackson is a New Zealand poet and anthropologist who has taught in anthropology departments at Massey University, the Australian National University, Indiana University Bloomington, and the University of Copenhagen. He is a religion professor at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA, USA.

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