The saint, the sea monster, and an invitation to a dîner-dansant: ethnographic reflections on the edgy passage — and the double edge — of modernity, Mayotte 1975-2001
Lambek, Michael
(2004)
The saint, the sea monster, and an invitation to a dîner-dansant: ethnographic reflections on the edgy passage — and the double edge — of modernity, Mayotte 1975-2001.
Anthropologica, 46 (1).
pp. 57-68.
ISSN 0003-5459
This depiction of social change in the Western Indian Ocean emphasizes consciousness, agency, and temporal experience as Malagasy are poised between grasping the future and completing - but also regretting - the past.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords | modernity,temporal experience,the unheimlich,Mayotte |
| Departments | Anthropology |
| Date Deposited | 30 Sep 2008 15:13 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/15523 |