Forget Colonialism?: Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity 1)
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Jennifer Cole (Author)
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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. 20 b-w photographs, 5 maps.
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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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- Contributor: Jennifer Cole
- Imprint: University of California Press
- ISBN13: 9780520228467
- Number of Pages: 378
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x23mm
- Packaged Weight: 499
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Release Date: 2001-10-24
- Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Jennifer Cole is a cultural anthropologist and member of the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago.
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