Forget Colonialism? : Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity)

Cole, Jennifer

University of California Press（2001/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 378 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520228467
• DDC分類 969.1

Full Description

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.

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations and Maps Acknowledgments Note on the Text Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Colonial Interventions into Betsimisaraka Life Chapter 3. Local Worlds: Daily Village Life Chapter 4. Between Memory and History: Betsimisaraka Imagine the Past Chapter 5. The Power in the Past and the Colonial in the Ancestral Chapter 6. Memory: Official and Unofficial Chapter 7. Reversing Figure and Ground: The Memory of the 1947 Rebellion and the Elections of 1992-93 Chapter 8. Constructing a Betsimisaraka Memoryscape Epilogue: Looking Back: Memoryscapes in Time Notes Glossary References Index