Forget Colonialism?

Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar

AvJennifer Cole

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

Del 1 i serien Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-11-20
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
Antal sidor:378
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520228467

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Jennifer Cole is a cultural anthropologist and member of the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago.

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"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

Innehållsförteckning

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