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050		4	_aBP64.M35 L363 1993
082	0		_a306.6/09694
100	1		_aLambek, Michael.
245	1	0	_aKnowledge and Practice in Mayotte : _bLocal Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aToronto : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _c1993.
264		4	_c©1993.
300			_a1 online resource (499 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aAnthropological Horizons Series
505	0		_aIntro -- 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		_a7 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			_aIn 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic 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	_aIslam-Mayotte.
650		0	_aSpirit possession-Mayotte.
650		0	_aKnowledge, Theory of (Islam).
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aLambek, Michael _tKnowledge and Practice in Mayotte _dToronto : University of Toronto Press,c1993 _z9780802077837
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aAnthropological Horizons Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4671660 _zClick to View
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