Paperback, 469 pages
English language
Published Sept. 6, 2007 by Indiana University Press.
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Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeber arrived for fieldwork at the height of tensions attributed to a disastrous communal ordeal two years earlier. As Graeber uncovers the layers of historical, social, and cultural knowledge required to understand this event, he elaborates a new view of power, inequality, and the political role of narrative.
Subjects
- African studies
- Social & cultural anthropology
- Social Science
- Archaeology / Anthropology
- Sociology
- Madagascar
- Africa - General
- Anthropology - Cultural
- Africa - East
- Betafo (Madagascar)
- Ethnology
- Slavery