...: Cambridge University Press. Esoavelomandroso, M. 1979 La province Maritime Orientale du Royaume de Madagascar à la fin du XIXe Siècle . Antananarivo, Madagascar: ftm. 1994 Les Souverains du Menarandra dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe Siècle. Omaly sy Anio 33-36 : 287 -98. Fanony, F...

.... Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bastard, Eugène 1899 Exploration au sud de l'Onilahy. Notes, reconnaissances et explorations 3 (9): 351 -59. 1900 Mission chez les Mahafalys. Revue de Madagascar 2 (2): 697 -711, 773-90. Beck, Kurt 1996 Nomads of Northern Kordofan and the State...

...Jeanne Dina In this article Masikoro identity is linked to the Sakalava of western and northwestern Madagascar. An analysis that associates two ritual objects, the hazomanga (a wooden pole symbolizing a lineage, sometimes shaped like a cross,upon which sacrificial blood is consecrated to ones raza...

...Mansaré Marikandia Some scholars think that the designation Vezo relates solely to the way of life of fisher populations along the southwestern coast of Madagascar. Yet both Vezo and migrant fishers occupy this space. Prohibitions on sheep observed by all Vezo lineages of the Fihereña coast...

...Genese Sodikoff This article centers on labor in Madagascar and the ways in which colonial labor regimes have shaped forest conservation efforts. During the interwar period, the French colonial state launched two initiatives: it reinvigorated forest conservation measures and it conscripted male...

...Gillian Feeley-Harnik Conservationists in Madagascar emphasize the need to educate local farmers about proper land use, while often ignoring the ideas and practices of expatriate residents in past and present debates about Malagasy ecology. The premise of this article is that we need to study both...

...Lesley A. Sharp Independence Day is by far the most important state holiday in Ambanja, a prosperous town in northwest Madagascar. Although clearly a celebration of national liberation, it is nevertheless fraught with ambiguity. Events climax in a morning parade, when legions of school youth march...

...Andrew Walsh This article discusses different understandings of the origins of a ritual associated with the Antankaraña polity of northern Madagascar. If we are to understand how history is “made” differently at different points in time, we must consider the interrelatedness of historical...

...Pier M. Larson This article identifies historical transformations in the fluid and regionally varied secondary burials, or famadihana, of highland Madagascar. While secondary burials were known during the early nineteenth century, most mortuary ritual at that time focused on primary interment. From...

...Jeffrey C. Kaufmann American Society for Ethnohistory 2001 Alvarez, Albert Roca 1995 Ethnicity and Nation in Madagascar. In Cultures of Madagascar: Ebb and Flow of Influences . Sandra Evers and Marc Spindler, eds. Pp. 67 -83. Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies...

...Michael Lambek American Society for Ethnohistory 2001 Astuti, Rita 1995 People of the Sea: Identity and Descent among the Vezo of Madagascar . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bernstein, Richard 1983 Between Objectivism and Relativism . Philadelphia: University...

... here is that it can be used advantageously to highlight ways ethnohistorical re- search about Madagascar seems to me to have changed. Something that has not changed with time but that also shapes my commentary is my bias...

...Karen Middleton This paper explores the historical narratives of the Karembola, a people who settled a highly marginal region of southern Madagascar as Maroseraña subjects but who subsequently subverted royal ritual to make themselves “lords in their own land.” In contrast to Malagasy peoples who...

... as such. The Mikea of southwestern Madagascar are associated with the forest and foraging and contrasted with Vezo fishers and Masikoro agropastoralists, yet these groups and their economic strategies both intermingle. Mystique, pride, stigma, and resource claims together provide diverse, often conflicting...

... a variety of contributions, all with rich documenta- tion, on several regions of Madagascar. Each is as interesting as the other, and they bring new views on a variety of subjects. My commentary will center especially...

... that in particular are being investigated in Madagascar. The commentaries at the end of this issue make these points in greater detail, but it is im- portant to note how this collection of articles shows how thoroughly the old distinctions...

... by focusing on top- ics outside the traditional strengths of the journal (special issues included ones on Madagascar, millenarianism, and sexuality) while also showcasing rigorous scholarship on the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The jour- nal during this time consolidated its position as a leading...

... 23 : 409 – 25 . Kurien Prema 1994 Colonialism and Ethnogenesis: A Study of Kerala, India . Theory and Society 23 : 385 – 417 . Larson Pier M. 1996 Desperately Seeking “the Merina” (Central Madagascar): Reading Ethnonyms and Their Semantic Fields in African Identity...

... of the Reservation:Making the Modern Individual among the Lakota. American Ethnologist 22 (1): 28 -53. Bloch, Maurice 1986 From Blessing to Violence:History and Ideology in the Circumcision Ritual of the Merina of Madagascar . New York: Cambridge University Press. Bunchuai Srisawat 1950 30 Chat Nai...

... they suffered a grievous setback when Eligio died in a car acci- dent. Gasparino (1981) wrote of him: Eligio was one of our finest hopes. He had left for Africa with the courage of the pioneers. He had helped the beginning of our frater- nity among the lepers in Madagascar; and in the same...