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Author Bloch, Maurice.

Title Ritual, history, and power : selected papers in anthropology / Maurice Bloch
Published London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Athlone Press, 1989

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Description xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Monographs on social anthropology ; no. 58
Monographs on social anthropology ; no. 58
Contents Past and the present in the present -- Symbols, song, dance and features of articulation : is religion an extreme form of traditional authority? -- Disconnection between power and rank as a process : an outline of the development of kingdoms in central Madagascar -- Marriage amongst equals : an analysis of the marriage ceremony of the Merina of Madagascar -- From cognition to ideology -- Hierarchy and equality in Merina kinship -- Descent and sources of contradiction in representations of women and kinship -- Almost eating the ancestors -- Ritual of the royal bath in Madagascar : the dissolution of death, birth and fertility into authority
Analysis Social anthropology
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [223]-232
Notes Monographs on social anthropology no:58 0077-1074
Subject Cognition and culture -- Madagascar.
Ethnology -- Philosophy.
Ethnology -- Madagascar.
Merina (Malagasy people)
SUBJECT Madagascar -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115772
LC no. 88036611
ISBN 0485120712
0485195585
0485196581