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

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Title:

Author:

Cole, Jennifer, 1966-

ISBN:

9780520228450

9780520228467

Personal Author:

Cole, Jennifer, 1966-

Publication Information:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Physical Description:

xvii, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 1

Series Title:

Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 1

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. The 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.

Subject Term:

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) -- History.

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) -- Psychology.

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people) -- Attitudes.

Memory -- Social aspects -- Madagascar -- Ambodiharina.

Violence -- Madagascar -- Ambodiharina -- History.

Geographic Term:

Madagascar -- History -- French Invasion, 1895.

France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration.

Ambodiharina (Madagascar) -- History.

Ambodiharina (Madagascar) -- Social life and customs.

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Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal042/00048844.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ucal041/00048844.html

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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. Then, during democratic elections in 1992-93, the terrifying memories came flooding back. Cole asks, How do once-colonized peoples remember the colonial period? Drawing on a fine-grained ethnography of the social practices of remembering and forgetting in one community, she develops a practice-based approach to social memory.