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Forget Colonialism?: Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar Volume 1

Forget Colonialism?: Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar Volume 1

Cole, Jennifer

Paperback

Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity, Book 1

African HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0520228464
ISBN13: 9780520228467
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Nov 20 2001
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
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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