Madagascar

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The Natural History of Madagascar
University Of Chicago Press University Of Chicago Press
Separated from the mainland of Africa for 160 million years, Madagascar has evolved an incredible wealth of biodiversity, with thousands of species that can be found nowhere else on earth. For instance, of its estimated 12,000 plant species, nearly...
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Lords and Lemurs: Mad Scientists, Kings With Spears, and the Survival of Diversity in Madagascar
Alison Jolly Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin
In the extreme south of Madagascar is a place called Berenty, where Tandroy tribesmen, French lords, mad scientists, and two or three species of lemurs may be found gathered peacefully under a tamarind tree. Forty years ago Alison Jolly went to...
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The Aye-Aye and I: A Rescue Journey to Save One of the World's Most Intriguing Creatures from Extinction
Gerald Durrell Touchstone Touchstone
Here is the riveting tale of Gerald Durrell's adventures and misadventures in the enchanted forests of Madagascar, in search of the elusive Aye-aye. Once thought to be extinct, the Aye-aye, the beast with the magic finger, still lurks, though in...
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The Road to Clarity: Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)
Eva Keller Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan
In recent years, millions of people have joined churches such as the Seventh-day Adventist which prosper enormously in different parts of the world. The Road to Clarity is one of the first ethnographic in-depth studies of this phenomenon. It is a...
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The Baobabs: Pachycauls of Africa, Madagascar and Australia
Gerald E. Wickens, Pat Lowe Springer Springer
This is the only comprehensive account of all eight species in the genus Adansonia . It describes the historical background from the late Roman period to the present. It covers the extraordinary variety of economic uses of baobabs, famous trees,...
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The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism
Gwendolyn Wright University Of Chicago Press University Of Chicago Press
Politics and culture are at once semi-autonomous and intertwined. Nowhere is this more revealingly illustrated than in urban design, a field that encompasses architecture and social life, traditions and modernization. Here aesthetic goals and...
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Madagascar Safari Companion (Safari Companions)
Alain Pons, Christine Baillet Evans Mitchell Books Evans Mitchell Books
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History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822
Pier M. Larson Heinemann Heinemann
In this story of the impact of slave trade on an insular African society, Larson explores how the people of highland Madagascar reshaped their social identity and their cultural practices. As Larson argues, the modern Merina ethnic identity and some...
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People of the Sea: Identity and Descent among the Vezo of Madagascar (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Rita Astuti Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press
The Vezo are fishing people of western Madagascar. The identity of the Vezo is not fixed by descent; rather, it is established by what they do. They are people of the sea, distinguished from the farmers around them by their economic specialism....
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