Constructing History, Culture and Inequality : The Betsileo in the Extreme Southern Highlands of Madagascar /

Constructing History, Culture and Inequality : The Betsileo in the Extreme Southern Highlands of Madagascar /

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&...

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Main Author: Evers, Sandra (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2002.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
African Social Studies Series ; 4.

Subjects:

Betsileo (Malagasy people) > History.
Betsileo (Malagasy people) > Social life and customs.
Ethnology > Madagascar.
Madagascar > Civilization.

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