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The Possessed and the Dispossessed : spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town

Sharp, Lesley A.

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993

"This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants and migrant laborers who work the land in this plantation economy."Publisher description