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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Forget Colonialism?
• Subtitle: Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar
• Author: Jennifer Cole
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378
• EAN: 9780520228467
• ISBN: 0520228464
• ID: 04616734
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 499 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. November 2001

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