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Forget Colonialism?

Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-11-20
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEthnographic Studies in Subjectivity
Antal sidor378
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520228467

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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

"The best book-length study of colonial memory available.... Cole provides a way out of the dichotomy in which memory is viewed as either individual or 'collective.' " - Rosalind Shaw, coeditor of Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism/ The Politics of Religious Synthesis; "A remarkably lucid and self-assured analysis of social memory.... The book is a pleasure to read." - Michael Lambek, author of Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte