Author: Feeley-Harnik, Gillian
Title: A Green Estate: Restoring Independence in Madagascar
Description: Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, (1991). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvii,627 pp. Textual photo illustrations. Binding corner bumps. Light page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper ¶ 'A Green Estate' traces the effect of French domination through the colonial period and into the years after official Malagasy independence in 1960. The book reveals how the people of northwest Madagascar have reasserted their ownership of the land and reclaimed their heritage through a ritual reburial of a king who died at the height of the colonial era...by analyzing the long dialogue between the French & the Malagasy over monarchy, gender, death, land, work and taxes, French rule, she shows,resulted in the imposition of provincial centers of government and commerce that diverted attention and labor from agricultural villages and religious centers..." -dustwrapper blurb]. Contents: Interests in Ancestors: Interregnum; Work & Service; Law; Three Domsticities; Greedy Places; Remembering; The One Most in Evidence; The Death of Kings: Ancestry, Land & Labor: Eschatologies; Deadly Blessings: Death & Sexuality;La France Orientale et le Far-West Malgache; Three Domesticities: A Green Estate; Rooting Ancestors; Appendices: Comings & Goings of People Living in Andonaka in 1973; Comings & Goings of People Living in Tsinjorano in 1973; Population Statistics for Analalava & Ampasikely, 1972-72.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Malagasy Ethnology, Malgache Sakalava, Ethnography, Madagascar, Sociology, Religion, Ancestor Worship, East Africa