Micah has spent most of their life searching out the secrets of Cedar Grove, New York. Mainly, the well-guarded secret of Leoningworth Cemetery.When their best friend Candy returns to town, Micah finally has an opportunity to learn the long-sought secrets. They meet her at the cemetery—she's finally ready to tell them what she knows.What Micah learns—and how they learn it—threatens the balance of the life they knew. Now that they've seen what lies in the shadows, they must ...

The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France.The author’s innovation is to read ethnographic researches as...

Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial backwater to a full département of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within France rather than joining the i...

Oral history is a universal form of storytelling. For many years Voice of Witness, cofounded by Dave Eggers, has shared powerful stories of people impacted by in- justice with a broad audience of readers.Say it Forward is an extension of this work: a guide for social justice storytelling that outlines Voice of Witness’ critical methodolog y at the core of their evocative oral history collections. Expert editors and authors candidly outline how to harness the power of the p...

Some architectural transformations are modest, some are revolutionary. Shining a light on the hidden side of the accepted narrative of the history of architecture, this book explores works which transform existing buildings to build a way forward, through adaptations, additions and visual shifts. Examining 30 buildings across Europe, North America and South America, spanning from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century, it demonstrates the creative possibilities of working wit...

Possession aptly describes the explicit manifestations of spirits when they temporarily displace individuals by assuming control of their bodies and minds, but the word does not account for what it means to cohabit with them. Cohabiting with Spirits offers an intimate portrait of the intertwined lives of a married couple together with the various spirits who came to possess each of them. Set against the backdrop of the island of Mayotte during the twentieth century, the book paint...

From Trades to Teaching is a practical, field-tested guide for tradespeople stepping into teaching roles in Career and Technical Education. Student participation in CTE programs has surged over the past decade, making it essential that new teachers meet the demands of this unique job. Written by an ASE Master Technician turned veteran instructor, this book shares approaches for translating industry experience into effective instruction and classroom management. Each chapter is con...

Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). This book provides over 2,000 Exam Prep questions and answers to accompany the text Doing Business and Investing in Mayotte Guide Items include highly probable exam items: innovation, partnership, Customer relationship management, Commercialization, Testimonial, integrated marketing, credibility, Marketing communication, bottom line, entrepreneur, Shoppi...

Born in a small town in Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Lake Linden, Margaret Mayotte-Hirn grew up experiencing her life to the fullest. Today, she can look back and remember and be glad she experienced all those things that made her who she is today. She worked full-time in hospitals for 48 years and began writing when she was in her 60s. She raised three children, got a divorce, remarried, and enjoyed three new children in her life. She also gardened, raised Arabian horses and showed them, ...

A collection of letters between Rita (Clermont) Mayotte and Jerry Mayotte while he is in Army and away during World War II. The letters describe the day to day as well as the celebrations and occasional sorrows that most newlywed couples experienced during the 1940's. Part love story, part 1940's New England version of reality TV.

On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, on local forms of religious and therapeutic practice, on social accountability, and on the place of explicit forms of knowledge in th...

Many of our questions about religion, says the internationally renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, were once mysteries, but they no longer are: we are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" and "Why is religion the way it is?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary biology, Boyer shows how one of the most fascinating aspects of human consciousness is increasingly admissible to coherent, naturalistic exp...