Ritual Imagination
A Study of Tromba Possession among the Betsimisaraka in Eastern Madagascar
Biographical note
Hilde Nielssen, Dr.Polit. (1966) in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, is a researcher at the University of Bergen. Her publications range from spirit possession rituals in Madagascar to museums and colonial culture, and her publications include Unto the Ends of the World. Protestant Missions - Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, co-edited with Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Karina Hestad Skeie (Brill 2011).
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All those interested in Malagasy culture and society, religion in Africa, social anthropology, spirit possession, ritual and ritual theory.
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