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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827514503321

Autore

Cole Jennifer <1966->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001

ISBN

0-520-92682-X

1-59734-618-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Collana

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; ; 1

Disciplina

969.1

Soggetti

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) - History

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) - Psychology

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) - Attitudes

Memory - Social aspects - Madagascar - Ambodiharina

Violence - Madagascar - Ambodiharina - History

Madagascar History French Invasion, 1895

France Colonies Africa Administration

Ambodiharina (Madagascar) History

Ambodiharina (Madagascar) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

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.