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447 Index absentee landholders, 29, 270, 434n30; intimidation of, 165, 188; mediators with, 185, 270, 346, 360, 364, 368, 298; return of, 193. See also sharecropping action, 9, 37, 130–133, 141, 166, 178, 180, 234, 262, 302, 326–328, 385–390, 392; Arendt on, 414n4; capacity for, 37–38, 150, 273, 323, 326–327; collective, 68; control of others’, 50–52 (see also relations of command); constraints on others’, 62, 382 (see also authority); creative, 353; freedom of, 21; grounds of, 35; habitual patterns of, 325; harmful, 312; historical, 388; human, as source of hasina, 37–38, 140, 405n6; as inherently suspect, 74–75, 182; magical, 140; of propitiation, 21; projects of, 68, 135, 305, 350; relation to narrative, 9, 132–139, 179–181, 227, 430n5; ritual, 227; symbolic mediation of, 134, 140; that return to the actor, 323, 353; theories about, 31; violence as model for, 133. See also agency, history, narrative, passivity, political action admonitions (anatra), 57–58, 59, 62, 156, 197, 393, 421n9; stories as, 207 adultery, 83–84, 366–367 agency, 326–327, 392; conscious, 76, 141; historical, 30–32, 379, 385, 388. See also action, intentions agreement (fanekena), 69–71, 347–49, 394, 407n7; hasina as token of, 39, 71, 140; ody created by, 38–39; of fokon’olona, 69, 123, 413n37; stones as tokens of, 123, 140, 408n26; with spirits, 340. See also contracts, fatidra AKFM (political party), 30, 345, 420n10 AKTA documents, 111, 113–114, 207, 246, 409n26, 411n21, 421n6, 421n11, 431n7, 431n12. See also archives Alahamady (month), 415n27, 425n4 Alakaosy (month), 283, 294, 339 Althabe, Gérard, 21, 24 ambalavelona (disease), 160, 162, 191, 337, 393, 416n39 Ambararatra (field), 237, 239, 243 Ambaribe (village), 96–97, 102, 105, 107–108, 108, 159–163, 169–170, 271, 400, 401, 410n16, 416n40–41, 431n15 Ambatomivolana (village), 99, 101, 278–279, 281, 410n6. See also Amberobe, Andriandranando Amberobe (village), 89, 93, 287, 401, 426n22, 427n34, 427n36 ambiguity, 15, 36, 429n61; and power, 164. 241, 243; of gestures, 166; of taboos, 153; of term andriana, 321; of term Ray amandReny , 426n28; of Vazimba, 164. See also invisibility Amboanana (district), 100, 231, 340, 345, 376, 397, 401 Ambohimandrohitra (hill), 96, 101, 101 Ambohimanjaka (village), 96, 107–108, 108, 162, 170, 418n55, 420n19 Ambohimasina (tombs), 205, 334–335, 334, 432n15 Ambohimasina (village), 427n34 Ambohinatao (village), 97, 101, 102, 108 Ambohipanompo (mountain), 89, 93, 101, 294, 347–348, 401 Ambohidraidimby (mountain), 12, 88–89, 89, 93, 101, 148, 263, 298, 401 Ambohitrambo (mountain and district), 89–90, 89, 92, 99, 101, 229, 231, 398, 401, 409n26, 409n1, 421n11. See also Lailoza Ambohitrantenaina, 101, 118, 409n26, 410n6, 427n34 Ambohitrimaninana (hill), 108, 254, 260, 263, 294–295, 311, 314–315, 326, 337, 339, 354, 364, 376, 401 amontana (tree), 11, 143, 145, 146, 148–149, 280 anatra. See admonitions Ancestors (razana), 5–9, 53–67, 70, 72, 90, 91, 123, 195–196, 221, 245, 254, 286, 364, 374, 393, 394, 406n4, 411n20, 413n44, 413n49, 418n53, 423n30, 429n61; appear in dreams, 55, 157; authority of, 46, 53, 57–58, 62, 128, 154, 174, Ancestors (razana) (continued) 407n15; cruelty or violence of, 29, 56, 61, 152, 306, 366, 377; as dead bodies, 55–56, 62, 253, 335, 365–366; as foolish, 60, 137; as ghosts, 147; as weapons, 293–95; hidden, 294, 418n56; impose and maintain taboo, 56, 150, 176–177, 203, 290, 306, 413n50; intentions of, 152; knowledge given by, 76–77; lost, 121, 149, 164, 173, 219–222, 319, 395, 422n27; mainty, 34, 204–206, 264, 303, 316, 326, 386, 400; mainty attitudes toward, 203–204, 423n34; noble, 28, 42, 93, 95, 96, 99, 106–107, 148, 307, 364–366, 406n21, 410n11, 420n14; paired with God, 57, 58, 66, 348; power of, 61, 64–67, 70, 304–307, 347–349, 418n56, 429n53; rival, 7–9, 244, 297–299, 355, 425n12; royal, 2, 157; self-assertion of constrains the living, 60, 150, 292, 366, 407n18; stealing other peoples’, 356. See also famadihana, razambe ancestral punishment; 56, 59, 61–63, 70–72, 150, 176–177, 252, 270–271, 290, 407n13, 413n50, 425n12; evoked in ordeals, 6–7, 64, 347–49, 354–355. See also divine punishment ancestral lands (tanin-drazana), 12, 54, 87, 201, 202, 204, 215, 231, 286, 291, 362, 373, 393, 398, 423n29, 431n9, 406n2, 407n13; invoked in moral appeals, 57, 81, 209; lost people severed from, 201, 264; return to, 113, 188, 202, 225, 426n14; taboo on selling, 59, 123–125, 368, 375, 413n50 ancestries. See demes, lineages Anderson...

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