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David Graeber. Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xiii + 469 pp. Maps. Notes. Figures ...
11 de jun. de 2009 · GraeberDavid, Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiii + 469 pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-21915-2 (pbk). $25.95. - Volume 32 Issue 2 ...
10 de feb. de 2010 · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is a broad-scope anthropology journal covering social, linguistic and biological anthropology, and archaeology.
And then I wasn't sure if I was being correct. So, seeing that the book was pretty narrowly focused on the legacies of colonialism and slavery in Madagascar and what those legacies have meant for the people and their rituals and beliefs who live there now, I became bored with it. Going back and finishing it was helpful and also interesting.
7 de dic. de 2021 · Image 1: Book cover of Lost People David Graeber’s Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar began life as his University of Chicago doctoral thesis. It was not for some years that it appeared in print. That was 2007, and by then he had already published a considerable amount of other work, including a couple of significant…
Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeber arrived for fieldwork at the height of tensions attributed to a disastrous communal ordeal two years earlier. As Graeber uncovers the layers of historical, social, and cultural knowledge required to understand this event, he elaborates a new view ...
Combining theoretical subtlety, a compelling narrative line, and vividly drawn characters, Lost People is a singular contribution to the anthropology of ... Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar. David Graeber. Indiana University Press, 2007 - Betafo (Madagascar) - 469 pages. Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, ...
