Slavery and essentialism in highland Madagascar : ethnography, history, cognition / Denis Regnier.

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9781000182422 electronic book
1000182428 electronic book
9781003086697 electronic book
1003086691 electronic book
9781350102477 hardcover
9780367640446 paperback
9781000185607 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1000185605 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9781000189056 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
1000189058 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
1350102474
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yazar
Regnier, Denis
Yayın Bilgisi
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
©2021
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (194 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Dizi
London school of economics monographs on social anthropology
İçindekiler Notu
An encounter with southern Betsileo "slave" -- Overview of the book -- The Berosaiña -- Contested histories -- Marriage in Beparasy -- Unilateral unions and their consequences -- Mixing ancestries and keeping a memory of origins -- Essentialism: evidence, development and transmission.
Özet, vb.
"This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after the official abolition of slavery. 'Unclean people' is a widespread expression in the southern highlands of Madagascar, and refers to people of alleged slave descent who are discriminated against on a daily basis and in a variety of ways. Denis Regnier shows that prejudice is rooted in a strong case of psychological essentialism: free descendants think that 'slaves' have a 'dirty' essence that is impossible to cleanse. Regnier's field experiments question the widely accepted idea that the social stigma against slavery is a legacy of pre-colonial society. He argues to the contrary that the essential construal of 'slaves' is the outcome of the historical process triggered by the colonial abolition of slavery: whereas in pre-abolition times slaves could be cleansed through ritual means, the abolition of slavery meant that slaves were transformed only superficially into free persons, while their inner essence remained unchanged and became progressively constructed as 'forever unchangeable'. Based on detailed fieldwork, this volume will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, African studies, development studies, cultural psychology, and those looking at the legacy of slavery"-- Provided by publisher.
Konu
Slavery __ Madagascar __ History.
Race discrimination __ Madagascar __ History.
Essentialism (Philosophy)
Social psychology __ Madagascar.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General __ bisacsh
HISTORY / Africa / East __ bisacsh
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural __ bisacsh
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