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Author Cole, Jennifer, 1966-

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Ethnographic studies in subjectivity
Ethnographic studies in subjectivity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-355) and index.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Colonial Interventions into Betsimisaraka Life -- 3. Local Worlds: Daily Village Life -- 4. Between Memory and History: Betsimisaraka Imagine the Past -- 5. Power in the Past and the Colonial in the Ancestral -- 6. Memory: Official and Unofficial -- 7. Reversing Figure and Ground: The Memory of the 1947 Rebellion and the Elections of 1992-93 -- 8. Constructing a Betsimisaraka Memoryscape -- Epilogue. Looking Back: Memoryscapes in Time.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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.
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Subject Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) -- History.
Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people)
History.
Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) -- Psychology.
Psychology.
Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) -- Attitudes.
Memory -- Social aspects -- Madagascar -- Ambodiharina.
Memory -- Social aspects.
Madagascar -- Ambodiharina.
Memory.
Violence -- Madagascar -- Ambodiharina -- History.
Violence.
Madagascar -- History -- French Invasion, 1895.
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration.
France.
Colonies.
Africa.
Administration.
Ambodiharina (Madagascar) -- History.
Ambodiharina (Madagascar) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cole, Jennifer, 1966- Forget colonialism?. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520228456 (DLC) 00048844 (OCoLC)45172060
ISBN 9780520926820 (electronic book)
052092682X (electronic book)
0585391262 (electronic book)
9780585391267 (electronic book)
9780520228450 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520228456 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520228467 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520228464 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
1597346187
9781597346184