Contingency and ritual on the island of ghosts: new ethnography in Madagascar?

Muecke, S

Contingency and ritual on the island of ghosts: new ethnography in Madagascar?

Muecke, S

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Publisher:: Power Publications
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Technologies of magic:A cultural study of ghosts, machines and the uncanny, 2006, 1, pp. 92 - 109
Issue Date:: 2006-01

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dc.contributor.author	Muecke, S	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Potts, J	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Scheer, E	en_US
dc.date.issued	2006-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Technologies of magic:A cultural study of ghosts, machines and the uncanny, 2006, 1, pp. 92 - 109	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780909952358	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/1326
dc.description.abstract	When William Ellis, missionary and photographer, was sent to Madagascar in the mid-nineteenth century by the London Missionary Society (LMS), he was serving both God and Science. In these early days of photography, the technology was spreading rapidly throughout the European empires, and images such as Ellis', along with all the cargo of scientific artefacts and writings, had the spectacular effect, in Europe, of reporting back on other peoples encountered.	en_US
dc.publisher	Power Publications	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Technologies of magic:A cultural study of ghosts, machines and the uncanny	en_US
dc.title	Contingency and ritual on the island of ghosts: new ethnography in Madagascar?	en_US
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Abstract:

When William Ellis, missionary and photographer, was sent to Madagascar in the mid-nineteenth century by the London Missionary Society (LMS), he was serving both God and Science. In these early days of photography, the technology was spreading rapidly throughout the European empires, and images such as Ellis', along with all the cargo of scientific artefacts and writings, had the spectacular effect, in Europe, of reporting back on other peoples encountered.

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