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.

Madagascar--History--French Invasion, 1895.

Madagascar.

France--Colonies--Africa--Administration.

France.

Ambodiharina (Madagascar)--History.

Ambodiharina (Madagascar).

Ambodiharina (Madagascar)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgments; Note on the Text; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Colonial Interventions into Betsimisaraka Life; 3. Local Worlds: Daily Village Life; 4. Between Memory and History; 5. The Power in the Past and the Colonial in the Ancestral; 6. Memory; 7. Reversing Figure and Ground; 8. Constructing a Betsimisaraka Memoryscape Epilogue. Looking Back: Memoryscapes in Time; Notes; Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

0-520-92682-X

1-59734-618-7

OCLC:

475930244