{"product_id":"contest-for-land-in-madagascar-environment-ancestors-and-development-9789004256224","title":"Contest for Land in Madagascar: Environment, Ancestors and Development","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Malagasy possess a profound religious, socio-political and economic attachment to land which connects individuals and kinship groups with the ancestors. International stakeholders value Madagascar for its biodiversity, minerals and agricultural potential, while the Malagasy state views land as the necessary platform for its economic development. This collection presents original research by established and rising scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including Human Genetics, Anthropology and History. Authors focus on land as the pivotal factor underlying the economic, social and religious structures of Malagasy society and its relationship with outsiders, aiming to provide new insights into the issues underlying Madagascar’s ongoing economic and political malaise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  List of Illustrations List of Contributors  Introduction: Land Competition and Human-Environment Relations in Madagascar  Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Gwyn Campbell and Michael Lambek  The Genetic Trail to Madagascar Himla Soodyall, Bharti Morar and Trefor Jenkins  Don’t we all Want a World Filled with “Bright Faces” and “Fat-Cheeked Babies”?  Creating the State and Crafting Ideology in Eighteenth Century Imerina  Victor Raharijaona and Susan Kus  Forest Depletion in Imperial Madagascar, c.1790–1861 � 63 Gwyn Campbell  Solving Madagascar: Science, Illustrations, and the Normalizing of Fauna of Nineteenth Century Madagascar  Tom Anderson  Lex Loci meets Lex Fori: Merging Customary Law and National Land Legislation in Madagascar  Sandra J.T.M. Evers  Land Rights and Alien Plants in Dryland Madagascar  Karen Middleton  Parenting through Boom and Bust in a Northern Malagasy Mining Town Andrew Walsh  Discourse, Development and Legitimacy: Nature\/Culture Dualism of Mining Engagements in  Biodiversity Offsetting and Conservation in Madagascar  Caroline Seagle  How the Daewoo Attempted Land Acquisition Contributed to Madagascar’ Political Crisis in 2009  Venusia Vinciguerra  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210640318807,"sku":"9789004256224","price":73.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contest-for-land-in-madagascar-environment-ancestors-and-development-9789004256224","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}