Rita Astuti, Astuti Rita

People of the Sea

Identity and Descent Among the Vezo of Madagascar
Herausgeber: Fortes, Meyer

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Produktbeschreibung

The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the sea'. Dr Astuti explores their identity, showing that it is established through what people do rather than being determined by descent. Vezo identity is a 'way of doing' rather than a 'state of being', performative rather than ethnic. However, her innovative analysis of Vezo kinship also uncovers an opposite form of identity based on descent, which she argues is the identity of the dead. By looking at key mortuary rituals that engage the relationship between the living and the dead, Dr Astuti develops a dual model of the Vezo person: the one defined contextually in the present, the other determined by the past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780521024730
• ISBN-10: 0521024730
• Artikelnr.: 22251597

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Acting Vezo in the present
3. People without wisdom
4. Avoiding ties and bonds
5. Intermezzo
6. Kinship in the present and in the future
7. Separating life from death
8. Working for the dead
9. Conclusion
Notes
List of references
Index.