Knowledge and practice in Mayotte: local discourses of Islam, sorcery, and spirit possession
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1993
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| Beschreibung: | XXII, 468 S. Ill., Kt. |
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| adam_text | MICHAEL LAMBEK
Knowledge and Practice
in Mayotte:
Local Discourses of
Islam, Sorcery, and
Spirit Possession
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
Contents
Tables and Figures xi
Preface xiii
Stylistic Conventions and Conundrums xvii
Dramatis Personae xxi
PART I INTRODUCTIONS
1 Knowledge and Hubris 3
Knowledge, Power, and Morality 3
Towards an Anthropology of Knowledge 8
Transcending Subdisciplinary Boundaries 15
Ethnography as Hermeneutic Practice 19
2 Locating Knowledge in Mayotte: Structure, History, and Practice 31
Cultural Diversity in Mayotte 32
Historical Overview 40
The Three Traditions 48
Historical Practice 53
Islam Versus Possession? 62
From the Sweep of Traditions to Local Views 66
3 Village Organization and the Distribution of Knowledge 68
The Social Distribution of Knowledge 68
Portrait of the Villages 71
The Social Organization of the Village from the Perspective of
Knowledge 84
viii Contents
The Village Fundis 90
The Economic Basis of the Experts 95
PART II THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF TEXTUAL
KNOWLEDGE
4 Islam: The Perspective from the Path 103
Prayer and the Projection of Moral Imperatives 104
The Social Production of Prayer 112
Prayer and Reciprocity 116
The Politics of Prayer 121
The Economy of Justice 127
5 Educating Citizens: The Reproduction of Textual Knowledge 134
The Three R s : Reading, Writing, and Recitation 137
The Transmission of Knowledge and Authority 144
Learning as the Embodiment of Knowledge 149
Individuation through Learning: An Example of an
Educated Citizen 156
The Value of Learning 159
6 Islamic Experts: Practice and Power 162
The Vulnerability of Authority 163
Islam and Politics: Two Public Figures 168
Styles of Practice: Two Village Fundis 170
Moral Intervention and Understanding 175
Friday Prostrations: A Conflict of Interpretations and
Modes of Legitimation 179
The Articulation of Heterogenous Knowledge in Practice 185
Certain Knowledge, Contestable Authority 189
PART III COUNTERPRACTICES: COSMOLOGY AND THE
INS AND OUTS OF SORCERY
7 Knowledge with Power: The Discipline of Cosmology 195
Relations of (Re)production 196
Divination as Calculation 209
Contents ix
World and Body 212
Indispensable Knowledge, Amoral Authority 219
Interdisciplinary Challenges 227
A Cut in Time 233
8 Knowledge and Antipractice: Committing Sorcery 237
The Dark Side of Knowledge 237
The Imagination of Evil 245
A Dead End 249 x
Sorcery in Practice 254
Postscript: Unleashed Accusations 262
9 Removing Sorcery: Committing (to) the Cure 266
Extractor and Client 267
Extraction in Theory 270
Tumbu in Practice 274
Scepticism and the Conversation between the Disciplines 280
The Extraction Itself: Experience and Sincerity 287
Extraction as Performance 290
Conviction and Good Faith 295
PART IV EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE AND THE PRACTICE OF
SPIRIT MEDIUMS
10 The Reproduction of Possession: Gaining a Voice 305
Spirit Possession as Embodied Knowledge 305
Gaining a Spirit as Moral Agency 320
Public and Personal Aspects of Succession 332
Emerging Voice 335
11 Tumbu and Mohedja: Excerpts from the Healers Practice 338
Sources of Knowledge and Agency 339
Ethics 347
Multiple Voices and Gender Politics 354
Intimacy and Solidarity: Curing Halima 361
Embodied Knowing, Polyvocality, and the Therapeutic
Alliance 371
Knowledge as Relationship 374
x Contents
CONCLUSION
12 Granaries, Turtles, and the Whole Damn Thing 379
Collapsing Granaries, Emerging Stories 380
Culture: Concurrent Perspectives 392
Culture, Incommensurability, and Conversation 396
Epilogue, 1992 407
Notes 409
Glossary 437
Bibliography 441
Index 453
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