Introduction
Uncertain signs and the power of the dead
Recognition and misrecognition in the missionary encounter
The signs of mission
Conquering the Andrantsay : familiar histories
Standing stones and the semeiotics of reproduction
Zone Rouge : encounters on the frontier
Epilogue : ghostly presences.
Ancestral encounters in highland Madagascar : material signs and traces of the dead by Zoë Crossland. ISBN 9781107036093. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.