The Sakalava Poiesis of History: Realizing the Past Through Spirit Possession in Madagascar
Dados Bibliográficos
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ANO | 1998 |
TIPO | Artigo |
PERIÓDICO | American Ethnologist |
ISSN | 0094-0496 |
E-ISSN | 1548-1425 |
EDITORA | Sage Publications (United States) |
DOI | 10.1525/ae.1998.25.2.106 |
CITAÇÕES | 23 |
ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
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Resumo
Using a broadly Aristotelian framework I propose poetic form as a means for distinguishing historicities. I analyze Sakalava performances of possession by royal ancestors as the creative production of a kind of history, distinguish it from a dominant occidental model of history, and elaborate the chronotope on which it is based and the heteroglossia and historical consciousness it enables. I argue that Sakalava spirit possession has a strongly realist bent and suggest the interest of poiesis for anthropological analysis and comparison more generally, [historical production, historicity, spirit possession, mimesis, poiesis, Aristotle, Madagascar]