Forget Colonialism?

Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-520-22846-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 378 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cole, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Cole is a cultural anthropologist and member of the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago.