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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... says Paul Ottino , Mad- agascar represents an autonomous amalgam of its entire cultural neighbor- hood , as " virtually all the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean have left their perceptible mark in material technologies , in ...
... says Paul Ottino , Mad- agascar represents an autonomous amalgam of its entire cultural neighbor- hood , as " virtually all the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean have left their perceptible mark in material technologies , in ...
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... says Chaigneau ) upon enactment in Paris of the socialist government's " framework law " ( loi cadre ) .46 Even that government proved wary of radical nationalist nests ( and of communist eggs laid in them ) ; deliberately refusing ...
... says Chaigneau ) upon enactment in Paris of the socialist government's " framework law " ( loi cadre ) .46 Even that government proved wary of radical nationalist nests ( and of communist eggs laid in them ) ; deliberately refusing ...
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... say , that was not the definition posited by Marxists , indige- nous communitarians , or others in the vigorous Malagasy Left . Within less than a decade , most revolutionaries had been antagonized by the president's politics of ...
... say , that was not the definition posited by Marxists , indige- nous communitarians , or others in the vigorous Malagasy Left . Within less than a decade , most revolutionaries had been antagonized by the president's politics of ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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