Forget Colonialism? : Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar (9780520228467)

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 378 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 23mm | 499g
• Publication date 20 Nov 2001
• Publisher University of California Press
• Publication City/Country Berkerley, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 20 b-w photographs, 5 maps.
• ISBN10 0520228464
• ISBN13 9780520228467
• Bestsellers rank 2,362,963

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