Contest for Land in Madagascar

Sandra J.T.M. Evers is associate professor in Anthropology at VU University Amsterdam. Her research and publications deal with migration, slavery and cultural transmission in Madagascar within the context of globalisation, natural resource management, poverty and sustainable development. Dr Evers directs a research programme on foreign large-scale land acquisitions in Africa and Madagascar.Gwyn Campbell, Canada Research Chair in Indian Ocean World History at McGill University, was born in Madagascar and is the author and editor of many works, including An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar (Cambridge, 2005) and David Griffiths and the Missionary “History of Madagascar” (Brill, 2012).Michael Lambek is Professor of Anthropology and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. His books include Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte (Toronto 1993) and The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagacar (Palgrave Macmillan 2002).

• CONTENTSList of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Land Competition and Human-Environment Relations in Madagascar Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Gwyn Campbell and Michael LambekThe Genetic Trail to MadagascarHimla Soodyall, Bharti Morar and Trefor JenkinsDon’t we all Want a World Filled with “Bright Faces” and “Fat-Cheeked Babies”? Creating the State and Crafting Ideology in Eighteenth Century Imerina Victor Raharijaona and Susan KusForest Depletion in Imperial Madagascar, c.1790–1861 � 63Gwyn CampbellSolving Madagascar: Science, Illustrations, and the Normalizing of Fauna of Nineteenth Century Madagascar Tom AndersonLex Loci meets Lex Fori: Merging Customary Law and National Land Legislation in Madagascar Sandra J.T.M. EversLand Rights and Alien Plants in Dryland Madagascar Karen MiddletonParenting through Boom and Bust in a Northern Malagasy Mining TownAndrew WalshDiscourse, Development and Legitimacy: Nature/Culture Dualism of Mining Engagements in Biodiversity Offsetting and Conservation in Madagascar Caroline SeagleHow the Daewoo Attempted Land Acquisition Contributed to Madagascar’ Political Crisis in 2009 Venusia VinciguerraIndex