Author: Cole, Jennifer
Title: Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvii,361 pp. Textual map & photos.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Colonial Interventions into Betsimisaraka Life; Local Worlds: Daily Village Life; Between Memory & History: Betsimisaraka Imagine the Past; The Power in the Past & the Colonial in the Ancestral; Memory: Official & Unofficial; Reversing Figure & Ground: The Memory of the 1947 Rebellion & the Elections of 1992-93; Constructing a Betsimisaraka Memoryscape; Epilogue: Looking Back: Memoryscapes in Time.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Madagascar Social, Betsimisaraka, Malagasy History, Ethnography, Colonial Sociology, Historiography, Ambodiharina, French Colonialism