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Examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing h
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Nineteenth-century highland Madagascar was a place inhabited by the dead as much as the living. Ghosts, ancestors and the possessed were important historical ac
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This volume investigates the material production and expression of colonial experiences in Africa. It combines archaeological, historical, and ethnographic sour