The world's fourth largest island, with a unique biological and physical endowment, Madagascar is home to an extraordinary insular civilization that has struggled for more than a century against external domination. In this sensitive introduction to the Indian Ocean's "great island," Philip Allen shows how family affinities and community loyalties at the foundation of Madagascar's culture have influenced Malagasy nationalism and forged islandwide traditions. These same principles have nonetheless engendered social cleavages ...
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The world's fourth largest island, with a unique biological and physical endowment, Madagascar is home to an extraordinary insular civilization that has struggled for more than a century against external domination. In this sensitive introduction to the Indian Ocean's "great island," Philip Allen shows how family affinities and community loyalties at the foundation of Madagascar's culture have influenced Malagasy nationalism and forged islandwide traditions. These same principles have nonetheless engendered social cleavages and resistance to economic and political change. In chapters on modern Madagascar, Allen analyzes the inability of a series of regimes to maintain authority among a people deeply bound to rituals of communication with their spiritual environment. He demonstrates how the first Malagasy Republic became stigmatized by its lingering identification with French colonialism and how the nationalist revolution in 1972 soon hardened into autocratic radicalism. Allen explores the complex challenges facing Madagascar's resurgent democratic forces-including a need to conserve the island's irreplaceable biodiversity and to facilitate authentic participation in public affairs without offending ancestral customs and local precedents. Finally, he discusses efforts to end Madagascar's economic and political dependence and to improve living conditions for its tragically impoverished population.
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Good. Size: 6x0x9; Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. A couple scattered markings. "The world's fourth largest island, with a unique biological and physical endowment, Madagascar is home to an extraordinary insular civilization that has struggled for more than a century against external domination. In this sensitive introduction to the Indian Ocean's "great island, " Philip Allen shows how family affinities and community loyalties at the foundation of Madagascar's culture have influenced Malagasy nationalism and forged island-wide traditions. These same principles have nonetheless engendered social cleavages and resistance to economic and political change."
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. For a century, Madagascar has encountered a succession of obstacles in its struggle towards political autonomy, prosperity, and international prominence. Although favoured with natural resources and relative cultural homogeneity, the "great island" of the Western Indian ocean-the fourth largest in the world-has yet to achieve a coherent national identity or international distinction. In this introduction, Dr Allen offers a study of the island's physical features and its complex ethnographic history. In separate chapters on politics, economics and society, he analyzes the factors bearing on the development of Malagasy nationalism, the difficulties of a fundamentally rural society undergoing urbanization and feeling the stresses of economic development, and the quandaries of a revolutionary government confronted with domestic and international challenges. Dr. Allen concludes with an interpretation of the interlocking systems that are shaping Madagascar's future.
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