...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...

... Messer and Michael Lambek, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Reflections on the ‘‘Ethno in Malagasy Ethnohistory Michael Lambek, University of Toronto 6326 Ethnohistory 48:1/2 / sheet 305 of 384...

...Karl Eggert American Society for Ethnohistory 2001 Malagasy Commentary Karl Eggert, University of Colorado 6326 Ethnohistory 48:1/2 / sheet 313 of 384 Time itself plays an important role in my commentary about...

... youths for public works. I analyze the effects on Malagasy subjects of the state's two-pronged effort to valorize Malagasy labor through compulsory road and rail works and to valorize Malagasy forests through conservation and commodification. I argue that these initiatives sent contradictory messages...

...: Essays from the 1970s . Albany, ca: Foundation for Malagasy Studies. Kottak, Conrad P., Jean-Aimé Rakotoarisoa, Aidan Southall,and Pierre Vérin, eds. 1986 Madagascar: Society and History . Durham, nc: Carolina Academic. Kus, Susan, and Victor Raharijaona 2000 House to Palace, Village...

.... Paillard, Yvan-Georges 1979 The First and Second Malagasy Republics: The Difficult Road to Independence. In Madagascar in History. Essays from the 1970s . Raymond Kent, ed. and trans. Pp. 298 -354. Albany, ca:Foundation for Malagasy Studies. Pietz, William 1985 The Problem of the Fetish, I. RES...

...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...

... and authority, famadihana and the persons who practiced them came into conflict with highland Malagasy royalty from the reign of Radama I. American Society for Ethnohistory 2001 Abinal, Antoine, and Camille de la Vaissière 1885 Vingt ans à Madagascar: Colonisation,traditions historiques, moeurs et...

..., within each discipline a great number of new, different methods are now used that relativize the dichotomy even further. Such is the general situation in the social sciences, but Malagasy his- tory and anthropology have...

... between history and anthropology, as well as cognate ideas such as ‘‘tradition’’ and ‘‘modernity are being broken down. Grounded in intimate engagements with Malagasy history and contemporary society and culture, these essays...

... narratives and the sociopolitical contexts in which they are produced and interpreted. By focusing on one purportedly commemorative rite and the different ways in which it has been interpreted at different points in Malagasy history, this essay suggests one example of how acts of commemoration...

...Jeffrey C. Kaufmann Diverse attitudes toward Malagasy prickly pear cactus demonstrate that French colonialism was not a single cohesive strategy but was marked by contradictions and struggles. Struggles among groups of colonizers included not only the control of cactus but also its appropriateness...

... contemporaines . Paris: Karthala. Richardson, J. 1885 A New Malagasy-English Dictionary . Antananarivo, Madagascar. Schlemmer, B. 1983 “La domination royale”au Menabe. Détournement colonial, survivance et décomposition.In Les souverains de Madagascar: L'histoire royale et ses résurgences...

.... This concept of ondate añivo,and especially that of tane añivo, defined by Middleton as ‘‘Inbetween land ‘‘land in the middle’’ or ‘‘land between two can facilitate the study of Malagasy populations who have refused royal authority (like...

... is continuously recreated and transformed. The Mikea of southwestern Madagascar are notable among Malagasy cul- tural groups in the extent to which their identity has been constructed in terms of a foraging, forest-dwelling...

... or la femme aux ouïes)isnot a Vezo-specific tradition. It exists in many Malagasy traditions, including Merina, Betsileo, and Mahafale. This myth, in general, recalls the succes- sive waves of immigrations to Madagascar...