Forget Colonialism?

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

"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

• 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