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This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in
highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after
the official abolition of slavery. 'Unclean people' is a widespread
expression in the southern highlands of Madagascar, and refers to
people of alleged slave descent who are discriminated against on a
daily basis and in a variety of ways. Denis Regnier shows that
prejudice is rooted in a strong case of psychological essentialism:
free descendants think that 'slaves' have a 'dirty' essence that is
impossible to cleanse. Regnier's field experiments question the
widely accepted idea that the social stigma against slavery is a
legacy of pre-colonial society. He argues, to the contrary, that
the essentialist construal of 'slaves' is the outcome of the
historical process triggered by the colonial abolition of slavery:
whereas in pre-abolition times slaves could be cleansed through
ritual means, the abolition of slavery meant that slaves were
transformed only superficially into free persons, while their inner
essence remained unchanged and became progressively constructed as
'forever unchangeable'. Based on detailed fieldwork, this volume
will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, African studies,
development studies, cultural psychology, and those looking at the
legacy of slavery.
The Pacific Islands have some of the highest rates of family
violence in the world. Addressing the contemporary mutations of
Pacific Island families and the shifting understandings of violence
in the context of rapid social change, this book investigates the
conflict dynamics generated by these transformations. The
contributors draw from detailed case studies in a range of Pacific
territories to examine family violence in relation to the social,
economic and political situation of native populations as well as
individual, collective and institutional responses to the
development of violence within and upon the family. They focus on
vernacular understandings, conflicting social norms, the emergence
of different types of violent patterns, the impact of violence on
individuals and communities, and local attempts at mitigating or
combating it. Combining ethnographic expertise with engaged
scholarship, this volume offers a vivid account of ongoing social
change in Pacific Island societies and a crucial contribution to
the understanding of family violence as a social process, cultural
construct, and political issue. This book will appeal to scholars
with interests in the sociology of violence and the family, Pacific
studies, development studies, and the social and cultural
anthropology of Oceania.
This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in
highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after
the official abolition of slavery. 'Unclean people' is a widespread
expression in the southern highlands of Madagascar, and refers to
people of alleged slave descent who are discriminated against on a
daily basis and in a variety of ways. Denis Regnier shows that
prejudice is rooted in a strong case of psychological essentialism:
free descendants think that 'slaves' have a 'dirty' essence that is
impossible to cleanse. Regnier's field experiments question the
widely accepted idea that the social stigma against slavery is a
legacy of pre-colonial society. He argues, to the contrary, that
the essentialist construal of 'slaves' is the outcome of the
historical process triggered by the colonial abolition of slavery:
whereas in pre-abolition times slaves could be cleansed through
ritual means, the abolition of slavery meant that slaves were
transformed only superficially into free persons, while their inner
essence remained unchanged and became progressively constructed as
'forever unchangeable'. Based on detailed fieldwork, this volume
will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, African studies,
development studies, cultural psychology, and those looking at the
legacy of slavery.
Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories of
islands off the African coast Islands and island chains like Cabo
Verde, Madagascar, and Bioko are often sidelined in contemporary
understandings of Africa in which mainland nation-states take
center stage in the crafting of historical narratives. Yet in the
modern period, these small offshore spaces have often played
important if inconsistent roles in facilitating intra- and
intercontinental exchanges that have had lasting effects on the
cultural, economic, and political landscape of Africa. In African
Islands: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalism, contributors argue
for the importance of Africa's islands in integrating the continent
into wider networks of trade and migration that links it with Asia,
Europe, and the Americas. Essays consider the cosmopolitan and
culturally complex identities of Africa's islands, analyzing the
process and extent to which trade, slavery, and migration bonded
African elements with Asian, Arabic, and European characteristics
over the years. While the continental and island nations have
experienced similar cycles of invasion, boom, and bust, essayists
note both similarities and striking differences in how these events
precipitated economic changes in the different geographic areas.
This book, a much-needed broadly comparative study of the African
islands, will be an important resource for students and scholars of
the region and of topics such as colonialism, economic history, and
cultural hybridity.
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