Browsing by Author "Jamison-Cash, Lillian"
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- ItemBonds, "Banks," and Blood: Zebu as a Total Social Phenomenon in Southwestern Madagascar?(2015) Jamison-Cash, Lillian; Ghannam, Farha, 1963-Drawing on studies of the gift and exchange, cattle-based economies, ritual sacrifice and funerals, as well as interviews and participant observation, this thesis argues that cattle in Madagascar is a nexus around which relationships are formed, and that these relationships reflect and reproduce social norms and hierarchies. I investigate how cattle is a total social phenomenon according to Mauss’s definition, looking at its production and its role in markets, gift exchanges and rituals. I examine how the sacrifice of cattle facilitates the deceased through a liminal transition period out of the society of the living and into that of the ancestors. The waning number of zebus in the littoral zone illuminates pertinent questions about livestock-raising in southwestern Madagascar, and about the nature of the total social phenomenon.
- Item« Je suis moi-même le soleil » : une étude de la représentation de l’espace dans les films de Sembène Ousmane(2014) Jamison-Cash, Lillian; Gueydan, Alexandra