Constructing History, Culture and Inequality

The Betsileo in the Extreme Southern Highlands of Madagascar
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-12460-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: African Social Studies Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evers, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Ph.D. (2001), is a Lecturer of Anthropology at the Free University of Amsterdam. She specialises in Southwest Indian Ocean studies, with a particular focus on Madagascar. Her publications examine frontier societies within the context of globalisation, natural resource management, poverty and sustainable development.