Weight of the Past

In The Weight of the Past , Michael Lambek explores the complex ways that history shapes, constrains, and enables daily life. Focusing on ritual performances of spirit mediumship in a multifaceted religious landscape, Lambek''s analysis reveals the multiple ways that Sakalava ''bear'' history. In Mahajanga, Madagascar, to bear history is at once a weighty obligation, a creative re-birthing, a scru...