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Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte : (Record no. 115650)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781442676534
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9780802077837
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System control number (MiAaPQ)EBC4671660
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System control number (Au-PeEL)EBL4671660
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System control number (CaPaEBR)ebr11257364
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System control number (CaONFJC)MIL199727
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System control number (OCoLC)958571609
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Original cataloging agency MiAaPQ
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050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BP64.M35 L363 1993
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 306.6/09694
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lambek, Michael.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte :
Remainder of title Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st ed.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Toronto :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer University of Toronto Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 1993.
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©1993.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (499 pages)
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490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Anthropological Horizons Series
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Stylistic Conventions and Conundrums -- Dramatis Personae -- PART I: INTRODUCTIONS -- 1 Knowledge and Hubris -- Knowledge, Power, and Morality -- Towards an Anthropology of Knowledge -- Transcending Subdisciplinary Boundaries -- Ethnography as Hermeneutic Practice -- 2 Locating Knowledge in Mayotte: Structure, History, and Practice -- Cultural Diversity in Mayotte -- Historical Overview -- The Three Traditions -- Historical Practice -- Islam 'Versus' Possession? -- From the Sweep of Traditions to Local Views -- 3 Village Organization and the Distribution of Knowledge -- The Social Distribution of Knowledge -- Portrait of the Villages -- The Social Organization of the Village from the Perspective of Knowledge -- The Village Fundis -- The Economic Basis of the Experts -- PART II: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF TEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE -- 4 Islam: The Perspective from the Path -- Prayer and the Projection of Moral Imperatives -- The Social Production of Prayer -- Prayer and Reciprocity -- The Politics of Prayer -- The Economy of Justice -- 5 Educating Citizens: The Reproduction of Textual Knowledge -- The Three 'R's': Reading, Writing, and Recitation -- The Transmission of Knowledge and Authority -- Learning as the Embodiment of Knowledge -- Individuation through Learning: An Example of an Educated Citizen -- The Value of Learning -- 6 Islamic Experts: Practice and Power -- The Vulnerability of Authority -- Islam and Politics: Two Public Figures -- Styles of Practice: Two Village Fundis -- Moral Intervention and Understanding -- Friday Prostrations: A Conflict of Interpretations and Modes of Legitimation -- The Articulation of Heterogenous Knowledge in Practice -- Certain Knowledge, Contestable Authority -- PART III: COUNTERPRACTICES: COSMOLOGY AND THE INS AND OUTS OF SORCERY.
505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 7 Knowledge with Power: The Discipline of Cosmology -- Relations of (Re)production -- Divination as Calculation -- World and Body -- Indispensable Knowledge, Amoral Authority -- Interdisciplinary Challenges -- A Cut in Time -- 8 Knowledge and Antipractice: Committing Sorcery -- The Dark Side of Knowledge -- The Imagination of Evil -- A Dead End -- Sorcery in Practice -- Postscript: Unleashed Accusations -- 9 Removing Sorcery: Committing (to) the Cure -- Extractor and Client -- Extraction in Theory -- Tumbu in Practice -- Scepticism and the Conversation between the Disciplines -- The Extraction Itself: Experience and Sincerity -- Extraction as Performance -- Conviction and Good Faith -- PART IV: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE AND THE PRACTICE OF SPIRIT MEDIUMS -- 10 The Reproduction of Possession: Gaining a Voice -- Spirit Possession as Embodied Knowledge -- Gaining a Spirit as Moral Agency -- Public and Personal Aspects of Succession -- Emerging Voice -- 11 Tumbu and Mohedja: Excerpts from the Healers' Practice -- Sources of Knowledge and Agency -- Ethics -- Multiple Voices and Gender Politics -- Intimacy and Solidarity: Curing Halima -- Embodied Knowing, Polyvocality, and the Therapeutic Alliance -- Knowledge as Relationship -- CONCLUSION -- 12 Granaries, Turtles, and the Whole Damn Thing -- Collapsing Granaries, Emerging Stories -- Culture: Concurrent Perspectives -- Culture, Incommensurability, and Conversation -- Epilogue, 1992 -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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, local forms of religious and therapeutic practice, social accountability, and the place of explicit forms of knowledge in the analysis of non-western societies.
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Source of description note Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Islam-Mayotte.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Spirit possession-Mayotte.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Knowledge, Theory of (Islam).
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading Lambek, Michael
Title Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte
Place, publisher, and date of publication Toronto : University of Toronto Press,c1993
International Standard Book Number 9780802077837
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830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Anthropological Horizons Series
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4671660">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4671660</a>
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