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The Presence of the Past: Madagascar, Music, and Devotion
directed by Ron Emoff, fl. 1993; produced by Ron Emoff, fl. 1993 (Montpelier, VT: Multicultural Media, 2004), 54 mins
People throughout Madagascar maintain a strong reverential connection to their ancestors, whose spirits may be called upon to enter into the present to resolve problems and to heal illness. Music performance provides a vital means of communicating with these ancestral spirits, thus of evoking the past and the powe...
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directed by Ron Emoff, fl. 1993; produced by Ron Emoff, fl. 1993 (Montpelier, VT: Multicultural Media, 2004), 54 mins
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People throughout Madagascar maintain a strong reverential connection to their ancestors, whose spirits may be called upon to enter into the present to resolve problems and to heal illness. Music performance provides a vital means of communicating with these ancestral spirits, thus of evoking the past and the power emergent in it. This project results from intensive ethnographic research that Ron Emoff performed on the east coast of Madagascar fr...
People throughout Madagascar maintain a strong reverential connection to their ancestors, whose spirits may be called upon to enter into the present to resolve problems and to heal illness. Music performance provides a vital means of communicating with these ancestral spirits, thus of evoking the past and the power emergent in it. This project results from intensive ethnographic research that Ron Emoff performed on the east coast of Madagascar from 1993 through 1995. Dr. Emoff's fieldwork focused upon connections between musical performance, spirit possession, ways of recollecting the past, constructions of power, and perceptions of the colonial era in Madagascar.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Ron Emoff, fl. 1993
Author / Creator
Ron Emoff, fl. 1993
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
Multicultural Media
Speaker / Narrator
Ron Emoff, fl. 1993
Topic / Theme
Folk music, Religious rites and ceremonies, Malagasy
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