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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... official programs and innovations — not admitting that these had never been meant to serve peasant interests in the first place . From government and pulpit came frequent denunciations of refusal to work on ta- boo ( fady ) days , of ...
... official programs and innovations — not admitting that these had never been meant to serve peasant interests in the first place . From government and pulpit came frequent denunciations of refusal to work on ta- boo ( fady ) days , of ...
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... official tally and thus regaining some of MFM's early 1970s prominence . Since then , the party has turned wholeheartedly toward the international system of trade and finance , rendering its leader persona grata in Washington but ...
... official tally and thus regaining some of MFM's early 1970s prominence . Since then , the party has turned wholeheartedly toward the international system of trade and finance , rendering its leader persona grata in Washington but ...
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... official An- tananarivo as willing to help without interfering in Malagasy affairs or re- quiring Madagascar's complicity in apartheid's struggle against black mili- tancy . From 1967 on , Foreign Minister Rabemananjara had repeatedly ...
... official An- tananarivo as willing to help without interfering in Malagasy affairs or re- quiring Madagascar's complicity in apartheid's struggle against black mili- tancy . From 1967 on , Foreign Minister Rabemananjara had repeatedly ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
Copyright | |
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