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| Author | : Sandra Evers |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2021-10-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004492410 |
During the early 20th century, a group of ex-slaves established a frontier society in the no-man’s-land of the extreme Southern Highlands of Madagascar. First settlers skilfully deployed a fluid set of Malagasy customs to implant a myth of themselves as tompon-tany or “masters of the land”. Eventually, they created a land monopoly to reinforce their legitimacy and to exclude later migrants. Some of them were labelled andevo (“slave” or “slave descent”). The tompon-tany prohibited the andevo from owning land, and thereby from having tombs. This book focuses on the plight of the tombless andevo, and how their ascribed impurity and association with infertility, illness, death and misfortune made them an essential part of the tompon-tany world-view.
| Author | : Sandra Evers |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2011-05-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004204415 |
This book examines the history and contemporary living conditions of Chagossians who were evicted from the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean to make way for a strategic U.S. military base. Initially part of colonial Mauritius, Chagos was integrated into a new colony named the British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965. In 1966, Great Britain transferred control of Diego Garcia, the largest Chagos island, to the Americans under a fifty year lease. The expulsions which followed were designed to satisfy the U.S. demand for an unpopulated territory. The Chagossians were thus forced to resettle in Mauritius and the Seychelles, where livelihoods are poor and marginalized. The Chagossians are currently engaged in a campaign seeking right of return to the archipelago and recognition as a people forced to live in diaspora.
| Author | : Tijo Salverda |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2015-04-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1782386416 |
Mauritian independence in 1968 marked the end of a regime favorable to the Franco-Mauritians, the island’s white colonial elite. Now, in postcolonial Mauritius, this group is faced with a much more diverse power constellation and often feels in competition with others vying for their privileges. Though this is a clear departure from the colonial heydays, Franco-Mauritians have been able to continue their elite position into the early twenty-first century. This book focuses on the power of white elites still lingering on in postcolonial realities, and with regards to elites and power in general, addresses anew how an elite group aims to prolong its position over time.
| Author | : Naomi M. Leite |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2019-10-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1498516343 |
**Winner of the 2020 Edward M. Bruner Book Award from the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group** "Leite, Castaneda, and Adams's volume is a beautiful retrospective of the enduring importance of Ed Bruner's work and legacy in our field, and we have no doubt that it will be used as a central historical, theoretical, and teaching text by many." - Prize Committee What does it mean to study tourism ethnographically? How has the ethnography of tourism changed from the 1970s to today? What theories, themes, and concepts drive contemporary research? Thirteen leading anthropologists of tourism address these questions and provide a critical introduction to the state of the art. Focusing on the experience-near, interpretive-humanistic approach to tourism studies widely associated with anthropologist Edward Bruner, the contributors draw on their fieldwork to illustrate and build upon key concepts in tourism ethnography, from experience, encounter, and emergent culture to authenticity, narrative, contested sites, the borderzone, embodiment, identity, and mobility. With its comprehensive introductory chapter, keyword-based organization, and engaging style, The Ethnography of Tourism will appeal to anthropology and tourism studies students, as well as to scholars in both fields and beyond. For more information, check out A Conversation with the Editors of the Ethnography of Tourism: Edward M. Bruner and Beyond and In Memoriam: Ed Bruner.
| Author | : Stuart Cartland |
| Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2023-12-04 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1837975477 |
Considering recent developments and ongoing processes such as globalisation, immigration and multiculturalism, this book critically examines contemporary theoretical narratives around English national identity as mediated by place and experience.
| Author | : Mikel Burley |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2016-01-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1628922257 |
"A philosophical exploration of the meaning, diversity, and ethical and religious significance of beliefs in reincarnation or rebirth"--
| Author | : Toyin Falola |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 442 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 158046954X |
Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories of islands off the African coast
| Author | : Lesley A. Sharp |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2006-10-04 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0520247868 |
Illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. This ethnographic study explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning.
| Author | : David Graeber |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Betafo (Madagascar) |
| ISBN | : 0253219159 |
An epic account of the power of memory in Madagascar.
| Author | : Denis Regnier |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 2020-12-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000182428 |
This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after the official abolition of slavery. ‘Unclean people’ is a widespread expression in the southern highlands of Madagascar, and refers to people of alleged slave descent who are discriminated against on a daily basis and in a variety of ways. Denis Regnier shows that prejudice is rooted in a strong case of psychological essentialism: free descendants think that ‘slaves’ have a ‘dirty’ essence that is impossible to cleanse. Regnier’s field experiments question the widely accepted idea that the social stigma against slavery is a legacy of pre-colonial society. He argues, to the contrary, that the essentialist construal of ‘slaves’ is the outcome of the historical process triggered by the colonial abolition of slavery: whereas in pre-abolition times slaves could be cleansed through ritual means, the abolition of slavery meant that slaves were transformed only superficially into free persons, while their inner essence remained unchanged and became progressively constructed as ‘forever unchangeable’. Based on detailed fieldwork, this volume will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, African studies, development studies, cultural psychology, and those looking at the legacy of slavery.
