Made in Madagascar

Made in Madagascar
Author: Andrew Walsh
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442694750

Since the 1990s, the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar has developed a reputation among globe-trotting gemstone traders and tourists as a source of some of the world's most precious natural wonders. Although some might see Ankarana's sapphire and ecotourist trades as being at odds with each other, many local people understand these trades to be fundamentally connected, most obviously in how both serve foreign demand for what Madagascar has to offer the world. Walsh explores the tensions and speculations that have come with the parallel emergence of these two trades with sensitivity and a critical eye, allowing for insights into globalization, inequality, and the appeal of the "natural." For more information, and to read a hyperlinked version of the first chapter online, visit https://madeinmadagascar.wordpress.com.

Made in Madagascar

Made in Madagascar
Author: Andrew Walsh
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442603747

Made in Madagascar is an innovative ethnography that explores the tensions and negotiations between the local Malagasy people and foreigners with sensitivity and a critical eye.

Around Madagascar On My Kayak

Around Madagascar On My Kayak
Author: Riaan Manser
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1868424332

In the last five years Riaan Manser has re-written the definition of tenacity and become the epitome of determination. Riaan rose to prominence when he became the first person to cycle around the entire perimeter of Africa. For over two years, he padalled a mammoth 37,000kms through 34 countries; some of which rank as the most dangerous places on Earth. It was a feat that earned him the title Adventurer of the Year 2006 and made his resulting book, Around Africa on my Bicycle, a best-seller. In July 2009 Riaan again set another world first when he became the first person to circumnavigate the world's fourth largest island of Madagascar by kayak; another expedition achieved alone and unaided. This incredible journey, 5000km in eleven months, was considerably more demanding, both physically and mentally. Daily, Riaan had to conquer extreme loneliness while ploughing through treacherous conditions such as cyclones, pounding surf and an unrelenting sun that, combined with up to ten hours in salt water, was literally pickling his body. The perseverance, of course, brought memorable close encounters with Madagascar's marine life - humpback whales breaching metres away from his kayak, giant leatherback turtles gliding alongside him and even having his boat rammed by sharks. Riaan travelled around Madagascar during a period of the country's political turmoil, which gave him unrivalled insight into the exotic island's psyche and even earned him two nights in prison on suspicion of carrying out mercenary activities. Around Madagascar in my Kayak is packed with engaging stories and beautiful photographs and is set to become another best-seller.

Forest and Labor in Madagascar

Forest and Labor in Madagascar
Author: Genese Marie Sodikoff
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2012-10-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0253003091

Protecting the unique plants and animals that live on Madagascar while fueling economic growth has been a priority for the Malagasy state, international donors, and conservation NGOs since the late 1980s. Forest and Labor in Madagascar shows how poor rural workers who must make a living from the forest balance their needs with the desire of the state to earn foreign revenue from ecotourism and forest-based enterprises. Genese Marie Sodikoff examines how the appreciation and protection of Madagascar's biodiversity depend on manual labor. She exposes the moral dilemmas workers face as both conservation representatives and peasant farmers by pointing to the hidden costs of ecological conservation.

Beyond the Rice Fields

Beyond the Rice Fields
Author: Naivo
Publisher: Restless Books
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1632061325

The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo’s magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation’s precolonial past through the twin narratives of a slave and his master’s daughter. Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have shared a tender intimacy since her father bought the young boy who’d been ripped away from his family after their forest village was destroyed. Now in Sahasoa, amongst the cattle and rice fields, everything is new for Tsito, and Fara at last has a companion to play with. But as Tsito looks forward toward the bright promise of freedom and Fara, backward to a twisted, long-denied family history, a rift opens that a rapidly shifting political and social terrain can only widen. As love and innocence fall away, their world becomes defined by what tyranny and superstition both thrive upon: fear. With captivating lyricism and undeniable urgency, Naivo crafts an unsentimental interrogation of the brutal history of nineteenth-century Madagascar as a land newly exposed to the forces of Christianity and modernity, and preparing for a violent reaction against them. Beyond the Rice Fields is a tour de force about the global history of human bondage and the competing narratives that keep us from recognizing ourselves and each other, our pasts and our destinies.

In Search of the Red Slave

In Search of the Red Slave
Author: Michael Parker Pearson
Publisher: History Press Limited
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A tale that has been more or less forgotten for centuries is brought back to life through archaelogical research and exploration in the forests of Madagascar.

Lords and Lemurs

Lords and Lemurs
Author: Alison Jolly
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780618367511

Chronicles the rich human, plant, and animal diversity of this Isle off the East Coast of Africa, home to lemurs, unusual reptiles, and other creatures more at home in mythology than natural science.

Nenilava, Prophetess of Madagascar

Nenilava, Prophetess of Madagascar
Author: James B. Vigen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2021-12-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725273276

Before she was baptized or knew anything about Christ, young Nenilava was called by Jesus to preach and exorcise in his name. At the age of twenty, newly married to a Lutheran catechist, she heard Jesus prompting her to intervene in a case of demon possession, and from there her ministry spread like wildfire. She spent the next sixty years of her life traveling around her native Madagascar, proclaiming Jesus’ victory over sin, guilt, and evil, and bringing countless people to faith. In this book, her firsthand account of her early ministry, as told to a Malagasy pastor, appears for the first time in English. Complementing the immediacy of her narrative, former missionary in Madagascar, James B. Vigen, recounts the last thirty years of Nenilava’s life and describes the extraordinary impact of this illiterate peasant woman on African Christianity. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson concludes the book with a far-reaching exploration of demon possession, healing from illness and sin, emergent offices of ministry, and the relevance of Nenilava for Western Christianity.

Madagascar

Madagascar
Author: Mark Shulman
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780696224362

When four pampered New York City zoo animals are returned to the jungle, wild things happen! It's a good thing they have each other!

Madagascar

Madagascar
Author: Stephen Holgate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781943075485

An American diplomat--reformed alcoholic, unreformed gambler, and inveterate smart-ass-- finds himself under threat of disgrace and murder even as he seeks love and redemption on the strange and spirit-ridden island of Madagascar. Author Steve Holgate brings the mystery and mysticism of Madagascar to life in his haunting and exciting second novel.