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

• Autore: Cole Jennifer <1966->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• Disciplina: 969.1
• Soggetto topico: Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) - History; Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) - Psychology; Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) - Attitudes; Memory - Social aspects - Madagascar - Ambodiharina; Violence - Madagascar - Ambodiharina - History
• Soggetto geografico: Madagascar History French Invasion, 1895; France Colonies Africa Administration; Ambodiharina (Madagascar) History; Ambodiharina (Madagascar) Social life and customs
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Forget colonialism
• ISBN: 0-520-92682-X; 1-59734-618-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827514503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; ; 1.