Slavery and essentialism in highland Madagascar : ethnography, history, cognition
著者
書誌事項
Slavery and essentialism in highland Madagascar : ethnography, history, cognition
(London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology, 82)
Routledge, 2021
- : hbk
大学図書館所蔵 全1件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-174) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 essentialist 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.
目次
1. An encounter with southern Betsileo 'slaves'
2. Three lenses: ethnography, history and cognition
3. The Berosaina
4. Contested histories
5. Marriage in Beparasy
6. Unilateral unions and their consequences
7. Mixing ancestries and keeping a memory of origins
8. Essentialism: evidence, development and transmission
Conclusion
「Nielsen BookData」 より