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The sacrificed generation : youth, history, and the colonized mind in Madagascar

Youth and identity politics figure prominently in this provocative study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. A deeply nuanced ethnography of historical consciousness, it challenges many cross-cultural investigations of youth, for its key actors are not adults but school children
eBook, English, ©2002
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2002
1 online resource (xv, 377 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780520935884, 9781597348843, 9781282762510, 9780585441283, 0520935888, 1597348848, 1282762516, 0585441286
614606565
Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Text; Introduction; Chapter 1: Youth and the Colonized Mind; Part Two: The Perplexities of Urban Schooling: Sacrifice, Suffering, and Survival; Chapter 2: The Sacrificed Generation; Chapter 3: The Life and Hard Times of the School Migrant; Part Three: Freedom, Labor, and Loyalty; Chapter 4: The Resurgence of Royal Power; Chapter 5: Our Grandfathers Went to War; Chapter 6: Laboring for the Colony; Part Four: Youth and the Nation: Schooling and Its Perils; Chapter 7: Girls and Sex and Other Urban Diversions