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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Page 37
... single administra- tion — a feat that for all its other achievements the Merina monarchy had failed to accomplish . Once his " oil spots " had dried , and after a number of forays into dead ends , Galliéni established a rational ...
... single administra- tion — a feat that for all its other achievements the Merina monarchy had failed to accomplish . Once his " oil spots " had dried , and after a number of forays into dead ends , Galliéni established a rational ...
Page 105
... single candidate to run against Ratsiraka , it was at risk of losing a genuine opportunity . But opposition politics held fairly firm despite these fractious tenden- cies . Andriamanjato spoke eloquently in public for the militant wing ...
... single candidate to run against Ratsiraka , it was at risk of losing a genuine opportunity . But opposition politics held fairly firm despite these fractious tenden- cies . Andriamanjato spoke eloquently in public for the militant wing ...
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... single deity but also and perhaps above all by the family in its broadest sense . The extended family , the lineage , is where the living meet the dead and all the living to come as well ; and the circuit is closed thanks to the ...
... single deity but also and perhaps above all by the family in its broadest sense . The extended family , the lineage , is where the living meet the dead and all the living to come as well ; and the circuit is closed thanks to the ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
Copyright | |
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