Constructing history, culture and inequality : : the Betsileo in the extreme Southern highlands of Madagascar / / Sandra J. T. M. Evers.

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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Superior document:African Social Studies Series ; 4
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:African Social Studies Series ; 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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