Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte: Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession

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Michael Lambek

Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte

Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession

Michael Lambek

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University of Toronto Press
11 January 1994

Anthropology

Series: Anthropological Horizons

On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship.

In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, on local forms of religious and therapeutic practice, on social accountability, and on the place of explicit forms of knowledge in the analysis of non-western societies.

The ""objectified"" textual knowledge characteristic of Islam and of cosmology is contrasted with the ""embodied"" knowledge of spirit possession.

Lambek emphasizes the power and authority constituted by each discipline, as well as the challenge that each kind of knowledge presents to the others and their resolution in daily practice. ""Disciplines"" are defined as an organized body of practitioners or adepts, a concept precise and useful when applied to the contexts of Lambek's own research and equally so in the study of comparable environments elsewhere.

Essential reading for those interested in the comparative study of Islamic societies, Lambek's argument directly contributes to the main anthropological arguments of the day concerning the social and cultural basis of systems of knowledge and ethnographic strategies for depicting them.

By: Michael Lambek
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780802077837
ISBN 10: 0802077838
Series: Anthropological Horizons
Pages: 498
Publication Date: 11 January 1994
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Lambek is a professor and Canada Research Chair emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.