The Resource Knowledge and practice in Mayotte : local discourses of Islam, sorcery and spirit possession, Michael Lambek
Knowledge and practice in Mayotte : local discourses of Islam, sorcery and spirit possession, Michael Lambek
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- Summary
- In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, local forms of religious and therapeutic practice, social accountability, and the place of explicit forms of knowledge in the analysis of non-western societies
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxii, 468 pages)
- Contents
-
- ""Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Preface""; ""Stylistic Conventions and Conundrums""; ""Dramatis Personae""; ""PART I: INTRODUCTIONS""; ""1 Knowledge and Hubris""; ""Knowledge, Power, and Morality""; ""Towards an Anthropology of Knowledge""; ""Transcending Subdisciplinary Boundaries""; ""Ethnography as Hermeneutic Practice""; ""2 Locating Knowledge in Mayotte: Structure, History, and Practice""; ""Cultural Diversity in Mayotte""; ""Historical Overview""; ""The Three Traditions""; ""Historical Practice""; ""Islam 'Versus' Possession?""; ""From the Sweep of Traditions to Local Views""
- ""3 Village Organization and the Distribution of Knowledge""""The Social Distribution of Knowledge""; ""Portrait of the Villages""; ""The Social Organization of the Village from the Perspective of Knowledge""; ""The Village Fundis""; ""The Economic Basis of the Experts""; ""PART II: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF TEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE""; ""4 Islam: The Perspective from the Path""; ""Prayer and the Projection of Moral Imperatives""; ""The Social Production of Prayer""; ""Prayer and Reciprocity""; ""The Politics of Prayer""; ""The Economy of Justice""
- ""5 Educating Citizens: The Reproduction of Textual Knowledge""""The Three 'R's': Reading, Writing, and Recitation""; ""The Transmission of Knowledge and Authority""; ""Learning as the Embodiment of Knowledge""; ""Individuation through Learning: An Example of an Educated Citizen""; ""The Value of Learning""; ""6 Islamic Experts: Practice and Power""; ""The Vulnerability of Authority""; ""Islam and Politics: Two Public Figures""; ""Styles of Practice: Two Village Fundis""; ""Moral Intervention and Understanding""; ""Friday Prostrations: A Conflict of Interpretations and Modes of Legitimation""
- ""The Articulation of Heterogenous Knowledge in Practice""""Certain Knowledge, Contestable Authority""; ""PART III: COUNTERPRACTICES: COSMOLOGY AND THE INS AND OUTS OF SORCERY""; ""7 Knowledge with Power: The Discipline of Cosmology""; ""Relations of (Re)production""; ""Divination as Calculation""; ""World and Body""; ""Indispensable Knowledge, Amoral Authority""; ""Interdisciplinary Challenges""; ""A Cut in Time""; ""8 Knowledge and Antipractice: Committing Sorcery""; ""The Dark Side of Knowledge""; ""The Imagination of Evil""; ""A Dead End""; ""Sorcery in Practice""
- ""Postscript: Unleashed Accusations""""9 Removing Sorcery: Committing (to) the Cure""; ""Extractor and Client""; ""Extraction in Theory""; ""Tumbu in Practice""; ""Scepticism and the Conversation between the Disciplines""; ""The Extraction Itself: Experience and Sincerity""; ""Extraction as Performance""; ""Conviction and Good Faith""; ""PART IV: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE AND THE PRACTICE OF SPIRIT MEDIUMS""; ""10 The Reproduction of Possession: Gaining a Voice""; ""Spirit Possession as Embodied Knowledge""; ""Gaining a Spirit as Moral Agency""; ""Public and Personal Aspects of Succession""
- Isbn
- 9781442676534
- Label
- Knowledge and practice in Mayotte : local discourses of Islam, sorcery and spirit possession
- Title
- Knowledge and practice in Mayotte
- Title remainder
- local discourses of Islam, sorcery and spirit possession
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Lambek
- Subject
-
- Electronic books
- Islam
- Islam
- Islam
- Islam -- Mayotte
- Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
- Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
- Magie
- Magie
- Mahoré
- Manners and customs
- Mayotte
- Mayotte -- Social life and customs
- Religion
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion
- Spirit possession
- Spirit possession -- Mayotte
- Electronic books
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, local forms of religious and therapeutic practice, social accountability, and the place of explicit forms of knowledge in the analysis of non-western societies
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- OCLCE
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lambek, Michael
- Dewey number
-
- 306.6/09694
- 297/.09694
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BP64.M35
- LC item number
- L36 1993
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Anthropological horizons
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Islam
- Mayotte
- Spirit possession
- Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Islam
- Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
- Manners and customs
- Spirit possession
- Mayotte
- Magie
- Islam
- Islam
- Magie
- Religion
- Mahoré
- Label
- Knowledge and practice in Mayotte : local discourses of Islam, sorcery and spirit possession, Michael Lambek
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- ""Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Preface""; ""Stylistic Conventions and Conundrums""; ""Dramatis Personae""; ""PART I: INTRODUCTIONS""; ""1 Knowledge and Hubris""; ""Knowledge, Power, and Morality""; ""Towards an Anthropology of Knowledge""; ""Transcending Subdisciplinary Boundaries""; ""Ethnography as Hermeneutic Practice""; ""2 Locating Knowledge in Mayotte: Structure, History, and Practice""; ""Cultural Diversity in Mayotte""; ""Historical Overview""; ""The Three Traditions""; ""Historical Practice""; ""Islam 'Versus' Possession?""; ""From the Sweep of Traditions to Local Views""
- ""3 Village Organization and the Distribution of Knowledge""""The Social Distribution of Knowledge""; ""Portrait of the Villages""; ""The Social Organization of the Village from the Perspective of Knowledge""; ""The Village Fundis""; ""The Economic Basis of the Experts""; ""PART II: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF TEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE""; ""4 Islam: The Perspective from the Path""; ""Prayer and the Projection of Moral Imperatives""; ""The Social Production of Prayer""; ""Prayer and Reciprocity""; ""The Politics of Prayer""; ""The Economy of Justice""
- ""5 Educating Citizens: The Reproduction of Textual Knowledge""""The Three 'R's': Reading, Writing, and Recitation""; ""The Transmission of Knowledge and Authority""; ""Learning as the Embodiment of Knowledge""; ""Individuation through Learning: An Example of an Educated Citizen""; ""The Value of Learning""; ""6 Islamic Experts: Practice and Power""; ""The Vulnerability of Authority""; ""Islam and Politics: Two Public Figures""; ""Styles of Practice: Two Village Fundis""; ""Moral Intervention and Understanding""; ""Friday Prostrations: A Conflict of Interpretations and Modes of Legitimation""
- ""The Articulation of Heterogenous Knowledge in Practice""""Certain Knowledge, Contestable Authority""; ""PART III: COUNTERPRACTICES: COSMOLOGY AND THE INS AND OUTS OF SORCERY""; ""7 Knowledge with Power: The Discipline of Cosmology""; ""Relations of (Re)production""; ""Divination as Calculation""; ""World and Body""; ""Indispensable Knowledge, Amoral Authority""; ""Interdisciplinary Challenges""; ""A Cut in Time""; ""8 Knowledge and Antipractice: Committing Sorcery""; ""The Dark Side of Knowledge""; ""The Imagination of Evil""; ""A Dead End""; ""Sorcery in Practice""
- ""Postscript: Unleashed Accusations""""9 Removing Sorcery: Committing (to) the Cure""; ""Extractor and Client""; ""Extraction in Theory""; ""Tumbu in Practice""; ""Scepticism and the Conversation between the Disciplines""; ""The Extraction Itself: Experience and Sincerity""; ""Extraction as Performance""; ""Conviction and Good Faith""; ""PART IV: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE AND THE PRACTICE OF SPIRIT MEDIUMS""; ""10 The Reproduction of Possession: Gaining a Voice""; ""Spirit Possession as Embodied Knowledge""; ""Gaining a Spirit as Moral Agency""; ""Public and Personal Aspects of Succession""
- Control code
- 609961089
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- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxii, 468 pages)
- File format
- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781442676534
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt52rxm
- Publisher number
- 417525
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
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- (OCoLC)609961089
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Knowledge and practice in Mayotte : local discourses of Islam, sorcery and spirit possession, Michael Lambek
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- ""Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Preface""; ""Stylistic Conventions and Conundrums""; ""Dramatis Personae""; ""PART I: INTRODUCTIONS""; ""1 Knowledge and Hubris""; ""Knowledge, Power, and Morality""; ""Towards an Anthropology of Knowledge""; ""Transcending Subdisciplinary Boundaries""; ""Ethnography as Hermeneutic Practice""; ""2 Locating Knowledge in Mayotte: Structure, History, and Practice""; ""Cultural Diversity in Mayotte""; ""Historical Overview""; ""The Three Traditions""; ""Historical Practice""; ""Islam 'Versus' Possession?""; ""From the Sweep of Traditions to Local Views""
- ""3 Village Organization and the Distribution of Knowledge""""The Social Distribution of Knowledge""; ""Portrait of the Villages""; ""The Social Organization of the Village from the Perspective of Knowledge""; ""The Village Fundis""; ""The Economic Basis of the Experts""; ""PART II: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF TEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE""; ""4 Islam: The Perspective from the Path""; ""Prayer and the Projection of Moral Imperatives""; ""The Social Production of Prayer""; ""Prayer and Reciprocity""; ""The Politics of Prayer""; ""The Economy of Justice""
- ""5 Educating Citizens: The Reproduction of Textual Knowledge""""The Three 'R's': Reading, Writing, and Recitation""; ""The Transmission of Knowledge and Authority""; ""Learning as the Embodiment of Knowledge""; ""Individuation through Learning: An Example of an Educated Citizen""; ""The Value of Learning""; ""6 Islamic Experts: Practice and Power""; ""The Vulnerability of Authority""; ""Islam and Politics: Two Public Figures""; ""Styles of Practice: Two Village Fundis""; ""Moral Intervention and Understanding""; ""Friday Prostrations: A Conflict of Interpretations and Modes of Legitimation""
- ""The Articulation of Heterogenous Knowledge in Practice""""Certain Knowledge, Contestable Authority""; ""PART III: COUNTERPRACTICES: COSMOLOGY AND THE INS AND OUTS OF SORCERY""; ""7 Knowledge with Power: The Discipline of Cosmology""; ""Relations of (Re)production""; ""Divination as Calculation""; ""World and Body""; ""Indispensable Knowledge, Amoral Authority""; ""Interdisciplinary Challenges""; ""A Cut in Time""; ""8 Knowledge and Antipractice: Committing Sorcery""; ""The Dark Side of Knowledge""; ""The Imagination of Evil""; ""A Dead End""; ""Sorcery in Practice""
- ""Postscript: Unleashed Accusations""""9 Removing Sorcery: Committing (to) the Cure""; ""Extractor and Client""; ""Extraction in Theory""; ""Tumbu in Practice""; ""Scepticism and the Conversation between the Disciplines""; ""The Extraction Itself: Experience and Sincerity""; ""Extraction as Performance""; ""Conviction and Good Faith""; ""PART IV: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE AND THE PRACTICE OF SPIRIT MEDIUMS""; ""10 The Reproduction of Possession: Gaining a Voice""; ""Spirit Possession as Embodied Knowledge""; ""Gaining a Spirit as Moral Agency""; ""Public and Personal Aspects of Succession""
- Control code
- 609961089
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxii, 468 pages)
- File format
- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781442676534
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt52rxm
- Publisher number
- 417525
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)609961089
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Electronic books
- Islam
- Islam
- Islam
- Islam -- Mayotte
- Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
- Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
- Magie
- Magie
- Mahoré
- Manners and customs
- Mayotte
- Mayotte -- Social life and customs
- Religion
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion
- Spirit possession
- Spirit possession -- Mayotte
- Electronic books
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