Constructing history, culture and inequality : the Betsileo in the extreme southern highlands of Madagascar / by 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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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002. |
| Series: | African social studies series ;
v. 4. |
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