Forget Colonialism? - Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar

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List of contents

Contents
List of Illustrations and Maps
Acknowledgments
Note on the Text
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Colonial Interventions into Betsimisaraka Life
Chapter 3. Local Worlds: Daily Village Life
Chapter 4. Between Memory and History: Betsimisaraka Imagine the Past
Chapter 5. The Power in the Past and the Colonial in the Ancestral
Chapter 6. Memory: Official and Unofficial
Chapter 7. Reversing Figure and Ground: The Memory of the 1947 Rebellion and the Elections of 1992-93
Chapter 8. Constructing a Betsimisaraka Memoryscape
Epilogue: Looking Back: Memoryscapes in Time
Notes
Glossary
References
Index

About the author

Jennifer Cole is a cultural anthropologist and member of the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago.

Summary

This study of colonial memory asks the question, how do once-colonized people remember the colonial period? Drawing on an ethnography of the social practices of remembering and forgetting in one community in Madagascar, the book develops a practice-based approach to social memory.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Cole
• Assisted by: Jennifer Cole (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.11.2001
• EAN: 9780520228467
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22846-7
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity; Ethnographic Studies in Subjec; Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Archaeology, Social and cultural anthropology