The Saint, the Sea Monster, and an Invitation to a Dîner-Dansant: Ethnographic Reflections on the Edgy Passage — and the Double Edge — of Modernity, Mayotte 1975- 2001

Authors

  • Michael Lambek University of Toronto

Keywords:

modernity, temporal experience, the unheimlich, Mayotte

Abstract

This depiction of social change in the Western Indian Ocean emphasizes consciousness, agency, and temporal experience as Malagasy speakers are poised between grasping the future and completing—but also regretting—the past.

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2022-06-17

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Lambek, M. (2022). The Saint, the Sea Monster, and an Invitation to a Dîner-Dansant: Ethnographic Reflections on the Edgy Passage — and the Double Edge — of Modernity, Mayotte 1975- 2001. Anthropologica, 46(1), 57–68. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2328

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Vol. 46 No. 1 (2004): Anthropology of Sport

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