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Island in the Stream - An Ethnographic History of Mayotte (Paperback)
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Island in the Stream - An Ethnographic History of Mayotte (Paperback)
Series: Anthropological Horizons
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Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic
history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African
island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of
fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte
shifted from a declining and neglected colonial backwater to a full
departement of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial
trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within
France rather than joining the independent republic of the Comoros.
The Malagasy-speaking Muslim villagers Michael Lambek encountered
in 1975 practiced subsistence cultivation and lived without roads,
schools, electricity, or running water; today they are educated
citizens of the EU who travel regularly to metropolitan France and
beyond. Offering a series of ethnographic slices of life across
time, Island in the Stream highlights community members' ethical
engagement in their own history as they looked to the future,
acknowledged the past, and engaged and transformed local forms of
sociality, exchange, and ritual performance. This is a unique
account of the changing horizons and historical consciousness of an
African community and an intimate portrait of the inhabitants and
their concerns, as well as a glimpse into the changing perspective
of the ethnographer.
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