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The 750,000 inhabitants of Reunion Island - located east of Madagascar - make up a plural and complex society: a mosaic, artificially composed, created ex nihilo by French colonial rulers under the impulse of European market capitalism. The absence of any deep-rooted indigenous cultural identity prior to plantation slavery and colonisation, constitutes a fundamental dimension of the quest for identity within Reunionese society.

This book is a study of Reunion Island's social identity.

Reunion: An Island in Search of an Identity

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      Publisher: Unisa Press
      Publication Date: 15/07/2010
      ISBN13: 9781868884964, 978-1868884964
      ISBN10: 1868884961

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The 750,000 inhabitants of Reunion Island - located east of Madagascar - make up a plural and complex society: a mosaic, artificially composed, created ex nihilo by French colonial rulers under the impulse of European market capitalism. The absence of any deep-rooted indigenous cultural identity prior to plantation slavery and colonisation, constitutes a fundamental dimension of the quest for identity within Reunionese society.

      This book is a study of Reunion Island's social identity.

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