Hardcover, 392 pages
English language
Published Sept. 3, 2002 by University of California Press.
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Youth and identity politics figure prominently in this provocative study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. A deeply nuanced ethnography of historical consciousness, it challenges many cross-cultural investigations of children, for its key actors are not adults but school youth. Lesley Sharp refutes dominant assumptions that African children are the helpless victims of postcolonial crises, incapable of organized, sustainable collective thought or action. She insists instead on their political agency.
Subjects
- African studies
- Anthropology
- Children
- Political activity
- Imperialism
- Social Science
- Archaeology / Anthropology
- Sociology
- Madagascar
- Life Stages - Adolescence
- Social Science / Anthropology / General
- General
- Education
- Youth