عنوان

Turning 'Water Babies' (Zaza Rano) into 'Real Human Beings' (Vrai Humains)

شماره

LA116429

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Turning 'Water Babies' (Zaza Rano) into 'Real Human Beings' (Vrai Humains)

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Erin Nourse

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article examines the protective measures and rites of blessing that residents of Diégo Suarez use to keep their babies safe from harm and incorporate them into their respective religious and ethnic communities. I argue that new mothers, and their 'water babies,' are 'acquiring bones' (establishing themselves within the community) in ways that challenge the widely held perception that Malagasy practices around ancestors are primarily remembrance-oriented. By shifting our gaze away from death, and towards the family-specific ancestral practices around pregnancy and birth, we see that the process of 'acquiring bones' is as aspirational as it is retrospective. Moreover, securing one's worth in society is not exclusively tied to adulthood activities or paternal ancestral lineages; instead it is a flexible process that begins in childhood when parents first instill in their children a sense of what it means to be a member of a particular family or religious community.

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

224-256

عنوان

Journal of Religion in Africa

شماره جلد

47/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0666

اصطلاح موضوعی

African religions

اصطلاح موضوعی

ancestors

اصطلاح موضوعی

birth rituals

اصطلاح موضوعی

Comparative Religion & Religious Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

gender

اصطلاح موضوعی

History of Religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

identity

اصطلاح موضوعی

Madagascar

اصطلاح موضوعی

Religious Studies

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Erin Nourse

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700666-12340104

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y