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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... linguistic , and cul- tural homogeneity , a phenomenon which places the great island very much on the margin of Black Africa . ” 13 ENIGMAS OF MALAGASY SETTLEMENT Lacking direct evidence of the actual lines of immigration into the great ...
... linguistic , and cul- tural homogeneity , a phenomenon which places the great island very much on the margin of Black Africa . ” 13 ENIGMAS OF MALAGASY SETTLEMENT Lacking direct evidence of the actual lines of immigration into the great ...
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... linguistic , cultural , and physical variations occur in Madagascar , they are more a product of local historical and ecological factors than results of differ- ent racial or geographical origins . African , Arabic , and Indonesian ...
... linguistic , cultural , and physical variations occur in Madagascar , they are more a product of local historical and ecological factors than results of differ- ent racial or geographical origins . African , Arabic , and Indonesian ...
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... linguistic codification of the fundamental culture were in fact enhanced more by early nineteenth - century British policy than by the more ambivalent , less- privileged French of the time.40 Without imposing a Creole matrix on the ...
... linguistic codification of the fundamental culture were in fact enhanced more by early nineteenth - century British policy than by the more ambivalent , less- privileged French of the time.40 Without imposing a Creole matrix on the ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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