The possessed and the dispossessed : spirits, identity, and power in a Madagascar migrant town

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Figures = xi
• Plates = xiii
• Textual Notes = xv
• Acknowledgments = xvii
• 1. Introduction
• Possession, Identity, and Power: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations = 1
• Critical Approaches to the Study of Affliction = 3
• Investigating Possession: Social Change, Marginality, and Religious Experience = 11
• The Logic and Methods of Inquiry = 18
• PART I: HISTORIC, POLITICAL-ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE
• 2. The Political Economy of the Sambirano = 27
• Ambanja, a Plantation Community = 27
• An Economic and Political History of the Region = 35
• Local Power and Reactions to Colonialism = 44
• 3. National and Local Factions: The Nature of Polyculturalism in Ambanja = 52
• National Factions: Regionalism and Cultural Stereotypes = 53
• Social and Cultural Divisions in Ambanja = 65
• The Effects of Polyculturalism = 76
• 4. Tera-Tany and Vahiny: Insiders and Outsiders = 81
• Migrant Stories = 82
• Patterns of Association and Means for Incorporation = 96
• PART II: SPIRIT POSSESSION IN THE SAMBIRANO
• 5. The World of the Spirits = 115
• The Dynamics of Tromba in Daily Life = 116
• The Possession Experience = 122
• Other Members of the Spirit World = 134
• 6. Sacred Knowledge and Local Power: Tromba and the Sambirano Economy = 144
• Tromba as Ethnohistory = 145
• Tromba, Wage Labor, and Economic Independence = 158
• Tromba and Collective Power in the Sambirano = 165
• 7. Spirit Mediumship and Social Identity = 171
• Selfhood and Personhood in the Context of Possession = 172
• Turning Outsiders into Insiders: Mediums' Social Networks and Personal Relationships = 179
• Miasa ny Tromba: Mediumship as Work = 189
• PART III: THE CONFLICTS OF TOWN LIFE
• 8. The Problems and Conflicts of Town Life: The Adult World = 203
• Malagasy Concepts of Healing = 203
• Sickness and Death = 209
• Work and Success = 212
• Love and Money, Wives and Mistresses = 216
• 9. The Social World of Children = 222
• The Possessed Youth of Ambanja = 224
• The Disorder of a Fragmented World = 231
• Children and Social Change = 240
• 10. Exorcising the Spirits: The Alternative Therapeutics of Protestantism = 245
• Sakalava Perceptions of Possession and Madness = 246
• Catholic and Muslim Perspectives on Possession = 252
• The Fifohazana or Protestant Exorcists = 255
• The Power of Protestant Healing = 269
• Conclusion: Toward a Reassessment of the Possessed and the Dispossessed = 276
• Appendices = 281
• A. Glossary of Malagasy Terms = 283
• B. List of the Possessed = 287
• Notes = 293
• References = 311
• Index = 339