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Island in the Stream

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Island in the Stream

By Michael Lambek

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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 d?partement of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within France rather than joining the independent repu...Show more

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9781487522995

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University of Toronto Press

Published year

2018

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