Madagascar: Conflicts Of Authority In The Great IslandThe world's fourth largest island, with a unique biological and physical endowment, Madagascar is home to an extraordinary insular civilization that has struggled for more than a century against external domination. In this sensitive introduction to the Indian Ocean's "great island," Philip Allen shows how family affinities and community loyalties at the foundation of Madagascar's culture have influenced Malagasy nationalism and forged island-wide traditions. |
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... Betsimisaraka of the east coast . These original political cultures all emerged from a synthesis of Indonesian and African fac- tors . Much research is needed to define them precisely ; their evolution may have started with the arrival ...
... Betsimisaraka of the east coast . These original political cultures all emerged from a synthesis of Indonesian and African fac- tors . Much research is needed to define them precisely ; their evolution may have started with the arrival ...
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... Betsimisaraka east , remained apart from the modern world of interchangeable administrators , servile to its dominators but never part of their world . Even today , two republics later , that distance has not been bridged . 66 Instead ...
... Betsimisaraka east , remained apart from the modern world of interchangeable administrators , servile to its dominators but never part of their world . Even today , two republics later , that distance has not been bridged . 66 Instead ...
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... BETSIMISARAKA Sainte Marie SIHANAKA Maningory Fenoarivo Atsinanana Amparaţaravola Ambatondrazakao Toamasina Wondro MERINA OTsiroanomandidy Moramanga Antananarivo . Soavinandrianao BETSIMISARAKA Ambatolampy Morondava O Morombe Mangoky ...
... BETSIMISARAKA Sainte Marie SIHANAKA Maningory Fenoarivo Atsinanana Amparaţaravola Ambatondrazakao Toamasina Wondro MERINA OTsiroanomandidy Moramanga Antananarivo . Soavinandrianao BETSIMISARAKA Ambatolampy Morondava O Morombe Mangoky ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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administration Africa agricultural AKFM Albert Zafy Althabe ancestral Andriamanjato Antananarivo Antanosy Antsiranana AREMA Betsimisaraka Bloch capital central century Césaire Rabenoro Chaigneau Christian colonial Comoros côtier Country Report cultural debt democratic Didier Ratsiraka domestic domination economic elections elites European export external fanjakana FNDR fokon'olona forces foreign France Francisque Ravony French gasy ideological Indian Ocean institutions investment island Jacques Rabemananjara Jeune Afrique l'océan indien labor leaders Madagas Madagascar Madagascar Paris Madagascar Tribune Mahajanga Mala Malagasy malgache Manandafy Marxist Mauritius MDRM ment Merina military million MONIMA Monja Jaona nationalist party Pavageau peasant percent plateaus political politique population Première république president prime minister production Rabemananjara Ramanantsoa Ranavalona Ratsimandrava Ratsiraka Ravony Razanamasy regime remained Resampa Réunion revolution revolutionary rice rural Sakalava slaves social socialist society structure Third World tion Toamasina trade traditional Tsiranana urban vazaha virtually World Bank Zafy