Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession (Anthropological Horizons) - Softcover

Lambek, Michael

 
9780802077837: Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession (Anthropological Horizons)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802077838 ISBN 13: 9780802077837
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. 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, on local forms of religious and therapeutic practice, on social accountability, and on the place of explicit forms of knowledge in the analysis of non-western societies.

The "objectified" textual knowledge characteristic of Islam and of cosmology is contrasted with the "embodied" knowledge of spirit possession. Lambek emphasizes the power and authority constituted by each discipline, as well as the challenge that each kind of knowledge presents to the others and their resolution in daily practice. "Disciplines" are defined as an organized body of practitioners or adepts, a concept precise and useful when applied to the contexts of Lambek's own research and equally so in the study of comparable environments elsewhere.

Essential reading for those interested in the comparative study of Islamic societies, Lambek's argument directly contributes to the main anthropological arguments of the day concerning the social and cultural basis of systems of knowledge and ethnographic strategies for depicting them.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Lambek is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He held a Canada Research Chair in the Anthropology of Ethical Life from 2006 to 2020 and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2000.

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802077838
ISBN 13 
9780802077837
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
498
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande

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