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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... distinction evolved slowly . Madagascar's insularity is more than a geographical platitude . A hun- dred million years of biophysical isolation permitted the evolution of a unique natural environment , just as several centuries of ...
... distinction evolved slowly . Madagascar's insularity is more than a geographical platitude . A hun- dred million years of biophysical isolation permitted the evolution of a unique natural environment , just as several centuries of ...
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... distinction from any of the others . They all speak a variation of one language . All retain combinations of African ... distinctions , let alone " superiority . " Lighter pigmen- tation and pronounced Asiatic features of many ( not all ) ...
... distinction from any of the others . They all speak a variation of one language . All retain combinations of African ... distinctions , let alone " superiority . " Lighter pigmen- tation and pronounced Asiatic features of many ( not all ) ...
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... distinction , the rewrapping of bodies already in the tomb should be called famosan - damba.28 Anything but morbid , as it may seem to Western perceptions , the famadihana is a complex ceremony of pious rejoicing , sheer play , and per ...
... distinction , the rewrapping of bodies already in the tomb should be called famosan - damba.28 Anything but morbid , as it may seem to Western perceptions , the famadihana is a complex ceremony of pious rejoicing , sheer play , and per ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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