Den Kolonialismus vergessen?: Opfer und die Kunst der Erinnerung in Madagaskar Band 1

Author/Contributor(s):	Cole, Jennifer
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	11/20/2001
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.