Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte

An Overview

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3877971
AutoresM Lambek (0000-0003-4629-1301, University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia)
Año1997
Volumen9
Número2
Páginas131-148
Fecha de publicación1997-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCultural Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/092137409700900201
OpenAlexW4293381133
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas22

This paper summarizes some of the arguments from Lambek (1993) concerning the conjunction of Islam with other practices on the local scene, among Malagasy speakers on the island of Mayotte, Comoro Archipelago. Islam, astrology and spirit possession are treated as forms of knowledge, examining how each is reproduced and circulated and how they are linked in practice. Distinctions between embodied and objectified knowledge, and between diverse relations to knowledge, are made. Tracing the relationships among knowledge, power and morality, a useful distinction is made between phronesis, or ethical judgement, and techne, or technical know-how as forms of practice. An argument is also formulated about incommensurability as a feature internal to culture and not simply of the relationship between cultures

Astrology · Epistemology · Islam · Judgement · Morality · Phronesis · Possession (linguistics · Sociology · Techne · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Philosophy