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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... sense of " return to the tomb " is in fact the proper translation of the term famadihana ; as Bakoly Domenichini - Ramiaramanana admonishes in a sel- dom - heeded philological distinction , the rewrapping of bodies already in the tomb ...
... sense of " return to the tomb " is in fact the proper translation of the term famadihana ; as Bakoly Domenichini - Ramiaramanana admonishes in a sel- dom - heeded philological distinction , the rewrapping of bodies already in the tomb ...
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... sense of urgency to resolve the demands of population , production , and environment . Jolly comments on the irony of a monetarized aid program to save nature : “ How absurd to think we must put a price on an alternate world of ...
... sense of urgency to resolve the demands of population , production , and environment . Jolly comments on the irony of a monetarized aid program to save nature : “ How absurd to think we must put a price on an alternate world of ...
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... sense , however , Malagasy elites tended to conform sympathetically to French ways of thinking and act- ing , for those were their own ways of thinking and acting . Important deci- sions were spontaneously influenced by consideration of ...
... sense , however , Malagasy elites tended to conform sympathetically to French ways of thinking and act- ing , for those were their own ways of thinking and acting . Important deci- sions were spontaneously influenced by consideration of ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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