Forget colonialism? : sacrifice and the art of memory in Madagascar / Jennifer Cole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cole, Jennifer, 1966-

Series:

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 1.

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people)--History.

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people).

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people)--Psychology.

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people)--Attitudes.

Memory--Social aspects--Madagascar--Ambodiharina.

Memory.

Violence--Madagascar--Ambodiharina--History.

Violence.

Colonies.

Administration.

History.

Memory--Social aspects.

Psychology.

Madagascar--History--French Invasion, 1895.

Madagascar.

France--Colonies--Africa--Administration.

France.

Ambodiharina (Madagascar)--History.

Ambodiharina (Madagascar).

Ambodiharina (Madagascar)--Social life and customs.

Africa.

Madagascar--Ambodiharina.

Physical Description:

xvii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]

Summary:

While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared to have forgotten the colonial period in their daily lives. Then, during democratic elections in 1992-93, the terrifying memories came flooding back. Cole asks, How do once-colonized peoples remember the colonial period? Drawing on a fine-grained ethnography of the social practices of remembering and forgetting in one community, she develops a practice-based approach to social memory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-355) and index.

ISBN:

0520228456

0520228464

OCLC:

45172060