Lambek, Michael (2004) The saint, the sea monster, and an invitation to a dîner-dansant: ethnographic reflections on the edgy passage — and the double edge — of modernity, Mayotte 1975-2001. Anthropologica, 46 (1). pp. 57-68. ISSN 0003-5459
Abstract
This depiction of social change in the Western Indian Ocean emphasizes consciousness, agency, and temporal experience as Malagasy are poised between grasping the future and completing - but also regretting - the past.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.anthropologica.ca/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2004 Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | modernity, temporal experience, the unheimlich, Mayotte |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
| Sets: | Departments > Anthropology |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/15523/ |
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