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Author Sharp, Lesley Alexandra

Title The sacrificed generation : youth, history, and the colonized mind in Madagascar / Lesley A. Sharp
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 377 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Text; Introduction; Chapter 1: Youth and the Colonized Mind; Part Two: The Perplexities of Urban Schooling: Sacrifice, Suffering, and Survival; Chapter 2: The Sacrificed Generation; Chapter 3: The Life and Hard Times of the School Migrant; Part Three: Freedom, Labor, and Loyalty; Chapter 4: The Resurgence of Royal Power; Chapter 5: Our Grandfathers Went to War; Chapter 6: Laboring for the Colony; Part Four: Youth and the Nation: Schooling and Its Perils; Chapter 7: Girls and Sex and Other Urban Diversions
Summary Youth and identity politics figure prominently in this provocative study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. A deeply nuanced ethnography of historical consciousness, it challenges many cross-cultural investigations of youth, for its key actors are not adults but school children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-370) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Youth -- Madagascar
Education -- Madagascar
Youth -- Political activity -- Madagascar
Imperialism.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Adolescence.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Teenagers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Education
Imperialism
Youth
Youth -- Political activity
Madagascar
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520935884
0520935888
1597348848
9781597348843
1282762516
9781282762510
0585441286
9780585441283