LEADER 05581nam 2200841 450 001 9910780573903321 005 20230912141705.0 010 $a1-4426-3861-3 010 $a1-281-99727-7 010 $a9786611997274 010 $a1-4426-7653-1 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442676534 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004148 035 $a(EBL)3251369 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000301131 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11223897 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000301131 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10259456 035 $a(PQKB)11121563 035 $a(CaPaEBR)417525 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600857 035 $a(DE-B1597)464596 035 $a(OCoLC)944178026 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442676534 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671660 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257364 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL199727 035 $a(OCoLC)958571609 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/z6nxrv 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/5/417525 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671660 035 $a(OCoLC)1082672879 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104913 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3251369 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004148 100 $a20160922h19931993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKnowledge and practice in Mayotte $elocal discourses of Islam, sorcery and spirit possession /$fMichael Lambek 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1993. 210 4$dİ1993 215 $a1 online resource (499 p.) 225 1 $aAnthropological Horizons 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-7783-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Stylistic Conventions and Conundrums -- Dramatis Personae -- PART I: INTRODUCTIONS -- 1 Knowledge and Hubris -- Knowledge, Power, and Morality -- Towards an Anthropology of Knowledge -- Transcending Subdisciplinary Boundaries -- Ethnography as Hermeneutic Practice -- 2 Locating Knowledge in Mayotte: Structure, History, and Practice -- Cultural Diversity in Mayotte -- Historical Overview -- The Three Traditions -- Historical Practice -- Islam 'Versus' Possession? -- From the Sweep of Traditions to Local Views 327 $a3 Village Organization and the Distribution of KnowledgeThe Social Distribution of Knowledge -- Portrait of the Villages -- The Social Organization of the Village from the Perspective of Knowledge -- The Village Fundis -- The Economic Basis of the Experts -- PART II: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF TEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE -- 4 Islam: The Perspective from the Path -- Prayer and the Projection of Moral Imperatives -- The Social Production of Prayer -- Prayer and Reciprocity -- The Politics of Prayer -- The Economy of Justice 327 $a5 Educating Citizens: The Reproduction of Textual KnowledgeThe Three 'R's': Reading, Writing, and Recitation -- The Transmission of Knowledge and Authority -- Learning as the Embodiment of Knowledge -- Individuation through Learning: An Example of an Educated Citizen -- The Value of Learning -- 6 Islamic Experts: Practice and Power -- The Vulnerability of Authority -- Islam and Politics: Two Public Figures -- Styles of Practice: Two Village Fundis -- Moral Intervention and Understanding -- Friday Prostrations: A Conflict of Interpretations and Modes of Legitimation 327 $aThe Articulation of Heterogenous Knowledge in PracticeCertain Knowledge, Contestable Authority -- PART III: COUNTERPRACTICES: COSMOLOGY AND THE INS AND OUTS OF SORCERY -- 7 Knowledge with Power: The Discipline of Cosmology -- Relations of (Re)production -- Divination as Calculation -- World and Body -- Indispensable Knowledge, Amoral Authority -- Interdisciplinary Challenges -- A Cut in Time -- 8 Knowledge and Antipractice: Committing Sorcery -- The Dark Side of Knowledge -- The Imagination of Evil -- A Dead End -- Sorcery in Practice 327 $aPostscript: Unleashed Accusations9 Removing Sorcery: Committing (to) the Cure -- Extractor and Client -- Extraction in Theory -- Tumbu in Practice -- Scepticism and the Conversation between the Disciplines -- The Extraction Itself: Experience and Sincerity -- Extraction as Performance -- Conviction and Good Faith -- PART IV: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE AND THE PRACTICE OF SPIRIT MEDIUMS -- 10 The Reproduction of Possession: Gaining a Voice -- Spirit Possession as Embodied Knowledge -- Gaining a Spirit as Moral Agency -- Public and Personal Aspects of Succession 330 $aIn a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, local forms of religious and therapeutic practice, social accountability, and the place of explicit forms of knowledge in the analysis of non-western societies. 410 0$aAnthropological horizons. 606 $aIslam$zMayotte 606 $aSpirit possession$zMayotte 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of (Islam) 607 $aMayotte$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIslam 615 0$aSpirit possession 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of (Islam) 676 $a306.6/09694 700 $aLambek$b Michael$0144296 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780573903321 996 $aKnowledge and practice in Mayotte$9506628 997 $aUNINA