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Forget colonialism? sacrifice and the art of memory in Madagascar

While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared to have forgotten the colonial period in their daily lives
eBook, English, ©2001
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2001