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
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-355) and index
Notes
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
English
Print version record
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
