List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Language; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two The Village; Chapter Three The Betsimisaraka, History and the Spread of Tromba; Chapter Four Localising Tromba; Chapter Five A Spirit World of Movement and Change; Chapter Six Making Connections: Spirits, Persons and Places; Chapter Seven Tromba Nights of Clapping, Song and Dance; Chapter Eight The Judgement Bath; Chapter Nine Tromba and the Radical Imaginary; Chapter Ten Tromba, Translocality, and the Magic of the Malagasy Nation; Epilogue Magic and Political Imagination
Appendix I The Spirits' Ethnic Origin, Kind, Gender and AgeAppendix II The Mediums and their Spirits; Appendix III Extracts of Conversations with Spirits--Malagasy Version; Appendix IV Tromba Vocabulary; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Exploring the rich world of tromba spirit possession in eastern Madagascar, this book offers a fresh perspective on questions of how rituals work and how they affect and constitute human realities
