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DESCRIPTION:Tasha Rijke-Epstein (Vanderbilt University)\n\nThis paper consi
 ders the movements of knowledge about the more- than-human world through t
 he expressive affinities of amulets and talismans across the southwestern 
 Indian Ocean basin. Amulets and relics (ody and sampy) in Madagascar’s ric
 h material culture\, in particular\, reveal the ways different earthly sub
 stances were long appraised for their capacity to enable the flow of power
  in the deep and recent past\, whether by established monarchs\, militia d
 efending their ancestral polity\, or ordinary villagers seeking prosperity
 . Ody and sampy were mediums\, in other words\, through which ancestrally-
 proffered sacred power was channeled and activated through the expert know
 ledge of ombiasy (healers). As small\, portable objects\, held close to th
 e body\, amulets and talismans were empowered objects that traveled with p
 eople across spaces and time. Eighteenth and nineteenth century waves of c
 ontraction and the rise of global capitalism in the region led to violent 
 displacement of enslaved persons through and across Madagascar\, and with 
 them the dispersal of amulets and knowledge of ecological and ancestral wo
 rlds to Mauritius\, Île de Bourbon (Réunion)\, and beyond. By thinking wit
 h an archipelagic framework\, and approaching amulets and charms found in 
 museum collections as “archive[s] of intimate encounters\,” this paper cen
 ters the southwestern Indian Ocean littoral as a dense node of knowledge p
 roduction\, transmission\, and contestation.\n	\n	Light refreshments served.
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LOCATION:116\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue McTa
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SUMMARY:IOWC Speaker Series: Tasha Rijke-Epstein\, 'Aesthetic Extraversion:
  Violence\, Circulation\, and Protective Amulets in the Southwestern India
 n Ocean Basin (17th -19th century)'
URL:/history/channels/event/iowc-speaker-series-tasha-
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