Contest for land in Madagascar : : environment, ancestors and development / / edited by Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Gwyn Campbell, Michael Lambek.
The Malagasy possess a profound religious, socio-political and economic attachment to land which connects individuals and kinship groups with the ancestors. International stakeholders value Madagascar for its biodiversity, minerals and agricultural potential, while the Malagasy state views land as t...
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| Superior document: | African social studies series, volume 31 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African social studies series ;
v. 31. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Sandra J.T.M. Evers , Gwyn Campbell and Michael Lambek
- Land Competition and Human-Environment Relations in Madagascar / Sandra J.T.M. Evers , Gwyn Campbell and Michael Lambek
- The Genetic Trail to Madagascar / Himla Soodyall , Bharti Morar and Trefor Jenkins
- Don’t we all Want a World Filled with “Bright Faces” and “Fat-Cheeked Babies”? Creating the State and Crafting Ideology in Eighteenth Century Imerina / Victor Raharijaona and Susan Kus
- Forest Depletion in Imperial Madagascar, c.1790–1861 / Gwyn Campbell
- Solving Madagascar: Science, Illustrations, and the Normalizing of Fauna of Nineteenth Century Madagascar / Tom Anderson
- Lex Loci meets Lex Fori: Merging Customary Law and National Land Legislation in Madagascar / Sandra J.T.M. Evers
- Land Rights and Alien Plants in Dryland Madagascar / Karen Middleton
- Parenting through Boom and Bust in a Northern Malagasy Mining Town / Andrew Walsh
- Discourse, Development and Legitimacy: Nature/Culture Dualism of Mining Engagements in Biodiversity Offsetting and Conservation in Madagascar / Caroline Seagle
- How the Daewoo Attempted Land Acquisition Contributed to Madagascar’s Political Crisis in 2009 / Venusia Vinciguerra
- Index / Sandra J.T.M. Evers , Gwyn Campbell and Michael Lambek.