1947 rebellion
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Author_Jennifer Cole
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cattle sacrifice
colonial memory
colonial period
colonial rule
colonized peoples
community
democratic elections
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ethnic identity
ethnography
folk religion
forgetting
french colony
historical memory
history
hybridity
madagascar
mahanoro district
memory
merina
nonfiction
padesm
panama
post colonialism
postcolonial madagascar
rebellion
religion
remembering
rural life
settler colonialism
silence
social memory
spirit possession
village life
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- ISBN 9780520228467
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Nov 2001
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Jennifer Cole is a cultural anthropologist and member of the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago.
