Forget Colonialism? [[electronic resource] ] : Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454774503321
• Autore: Cole Jennifer
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0-520-92682-X; 1-59734-618-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• Collana: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity Forget colonialism?
• Disciplina: 969.1
• Soggetti: Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people); Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people)-- History; Memory; Violence; Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) - History - Madagascar - Ambodiharina; Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) - Psychology - Madagascar - Ambodiharina; Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) - Attitudes; Memory - Social aspects; Violence - History; History & Archaeology; Regions & Countries - Africa; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.