This collection of essays by regional specialists draws on a wide range of ethnographic and historical data to reassess the significance of the ancestors for ch

How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its pl

This collection of essays by regional specialists draws on a wide range of ethnographic and historical data to reassess the significance of the ancestors for ch

This book examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for

Time and History in Prehistory explores the many processes through which time and history are conceptualized and constructed, challenging the perception of preh