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Forget Colonialism?, 1 - (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity) by Jennifer Cole (Paperback)

Forget Colonialism?, 1 - (Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity) by  Jennifer Cole (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The best book-length study of colonial memory available... Cole provides a way out of the dichotomy in which memory is viewed as either individual or 'collective.'"--Rosalind Shaw, coeditor of "Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis" <BR>"A remarkably lucid and self-assured analysis of social memory. . . The book is a pleasure to read."--Michael Lambek, author of "Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared to have forgotten the colonial period in their daily lives. Then, during democratic elections in 1992-93, the terrifying memories came flooding back. Cole asks, How do once-colonized peoples remember the colonial period? Drawing on a fine-grained ethnography of the social practices of remembering and forgetting in one community, she develops a practice-based approach to social memory.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>The best book-length study of colonial memory available... Cole provides a way out of the dichotomy in which memory is viewed as either individual or 'collective.'--Rosalind Shaw, coeditor of <i>Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism: The Politics of Religious Synthesis</i> <br /><br />A remarkably lucid and self-assured analysis of social memory. . . The book is a pleasure to read.--Michael Lambek, author of <i>Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte</i><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jennifer Cole</b> is a cultural anthropologist and member of the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago.

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