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Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care The Possessed and the Dispossessed: Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town Lesley A. Sharp (1993) Pierre Monteux Denying allegations of a loveThis finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power. These women, Leslie Sharp argues, are far from powerless among the peasants and migrant laborers who work the land in this plantation economy. In fact, Sharp's wide ranging analysis shows that tromba , or spirit possession, is central to understanding the complex identities of