Forget Colonialism? - Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity, 1
Release date:	November 2001
First published:	November 2001
Authors:	Jennifer Cole
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	378
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-22846-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	0-520-22846-4
Barcode:	9780520228467

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