Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 525-548).

Thesis (doctorat en ethnologie)--Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux II, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [408]-423).

Thesis (doctorat en ethnologie)--Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux II, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [408]-423).

Cette thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre des travaux sur la description des prédicats nominaux du LDI (Lexiques, Dictionnaire, Informatique), un laboratoire de l’Université Paris 13. Nous étudions les constructions prédicatives du malgache en les comparant à celles du français, langue pour laquelle on a mis au point une méthodologie adéquate à la description de ces structures. Le premier chapitre présente les outils descriptifs utilisés ainsi qu’une vue générale de la langue malgache. Le deuxième chapitre offre une vue d’ensemble des recherches faites sur les verbes supports, à la fois en français et en malgache, en insistant en particulier sur l’importance de la détermination nominale. Le choix des bverbes supports dépend de la nature des prédicats nominaux qui sont subdivisés selon qu’ils dénotent des actions, des états ou des événements. Ce classement est repris au troisième chapitre (prédicats d’actions), au quatrième chapitre (prédicats d’états) et au cinquième chapitre (prédicats d’événements). Dans chacun de ces chapitres, sont décrits avec précision quelques substantifs prototypes selon des critères constants et syntaxiquement fondés. On met ainsi en évidence le fait que les verbes supports ne sont qu’un des éléments de l’actualisation des prédicats nominaux, parallèlement aux déterminants et à certains adjectifs ou adverbes aspectuels. Cette thèse fournit un cadre à une future étude plus complète des prédicats nominaux du malgache. / AThis thesis is part of the work of L.D.I (Lexiques, Dictionnaire, Informatique) of the University of Paris 13 on the description of the nominal predicates. We study the predicative constructions of the Malagasy by comparing them with those of the French, the language for which was proposed the development of a methodology appropriate to the description of its structures. The first chapter presents the descriptive tools and a short description of the Malagasy language. The second chapter provides an overview of the research done on «verbs supports», both in French and Malagasy, with particular emphasis on the importance of nominal determination. The choice of «verbes supports» depends on the nature of the nominal predicates which are thus divided into three classes : actions, states and events. This classification specified in the third chapter (predicates of actions), in the fourth chapter (predicates of states) and in the fifth chapter (event predicates). In each chapter, some accuracy substantives prototypes were described, according to consistent criteria which are syntactically based. It thus highlights that «verbs supports» are only one part of discounting nominal predicates, along with determination and aspectual adverbs or adjectives. This thesis provides a framework for a future more comprehensive study of the Malagasy nominal predicates.

Thesis--Université de Paris VII, 1977. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. 368-384bis).

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Thesis (S.T.M.)--Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-190).

Thesis--Université de Paris VII, 1977. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. 368-384bis).

This study uncovers the underpinnings of a Malagasy Lutheran oral theology of homiletics. Using original sermons collected in the field from a cross section of Lutheran preachers and places in Madagascar this study is anchored in contextual materials. To the close readings of these materials the author brings anthropological, textual and Biblical exegetical methodologies for their analysis. Making the distinction between oral and literate composition and cultures, using the theories of Werner Kelber, Walter Ong, Eric Havelock, et al., the author demonstrates the oral structure of the socio-intellectual milieu of Malagasy society. In order to display this mindset in Malagasy theological thinking, this study sets the Malagasy exegesis of the Longer Ending of Mark’s Gospel against the horizon of Kebler’s theory regarding the written gospel as a “parable of absence” in the main body of the Gospel of Mark. This study makes manifest the Malagasy theology of presence, an oral theology. Framing his research with the Fifohazana (Revival) movement, the author briefly surveys the history of Christian missions in Madagascar. This history serves to demonstrate Western missionary literate culture and theology entering into dialogue with the oral culture of Madagascar and the subsequent indigenization of Christianity in the Fifohazana movement. This Fifohazana serves as a paradigm of the Malagasy homiletic and oral theology. Key leading figures of this movement, Rainisoalambo and Volahavana Germaine (Nenilava) are discussed. Extensive appendices of original Malgasy material, while not forming part of the body of the thesis, are provided for reference. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2010.

This thesis is about the Tsimahafotsy Merina of Ambohimanga, Madagascar, and the relationship between their collective concept of cultural identity and the cultural landscape in which they live. The Tsimahafotsy, once the dominant cultural group on the island have, over the last century, lost their political and social dominance, yet they remain united in a position of perceived privilege and power, a situation which inspired my thesis question: How did the Tsimahafotsy Merina build and maintain such a distinct, coherent and enduring sense of cultural identity in spite of significant and prolonged forces of change? I argue that the Tsimahafotsy have built and maintained their position as a result of a shared concept of socio-cosmic order in which they hold a dominant position, with their ancestors and tradition serving as a mediating mechanism to excessive change. Although the Tsimahafotsy appear to have undergone significant political, economic, social and cultural transformations from the early phases of their history to the present, evolution has in fact been conservative and additive, and the fundamental imago mundi upon which the Tsimahafotsy's collective identity is based has therefore remained consistently intact. I attempt to demonstrate that the cultural landscape of Ambohimanga has played a significant part in creating and maintaining this "ideal" socio-cosmic order over time, through its role as a powerful communication system. The order has been explicitly and symbolically mapped onto Ambohimanga's cultural landscape (an integral part of the Tsimahafotsy's everyday and ritual lives) as it slowly and additively evolved from the early phases of Tsimahafotsy history to the present. As with their political, economic, social and cultural world, the forces of change that the Tsimahafotsy have encountered have exerted influence over Ambohimanga's cultural landscape, but this has been largely surface change. When we peel back the layers by considering archeological and anthropological sources together (a method I call "archaeological anthropology"), a fundamental continuity of meaning for those initiated into this powerful visual language is revealed. Thus, as a result of their conservative approach to change, the visual vocabulary of Ambohimanga's cultural landscape has remained comprehensible to the Tsimahafotsy, and its meaning consistent - thereby playing a significant role in the Tsimahafotsy's rise to a position of domination in Imerina and Madagascar, and maintaining their collective image of themselves as privileged and powerful despite current political and economic realities.