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

by Jennifer Cole

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520228464
• ISBN13: 9780520228467
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"