Forget Colonialism?: Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar Volume 1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520228467)

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. Then, during democratic elections in 1992-93, the terrifying memories came flooding back. Cole asks, How do once-colonized peoples remember the colonial period? Drawing on a fine-grained ethnography of the social practices of remembering and forgetting in one community, she develops a practice-based approach to social memory.

Author: Jennifer Cole
ISBN-10: 0520228464
ISBN-13: 9780520228467
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2001
Pages: 378
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.08w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2002 pg. 1856