Pier M Larson
Biographic Data
| ID | 306038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pier M Larson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pier M |
| FAMILY NAME | Larson |
| SIGNATURE | LARSON P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s
Imagined as a colony of settlement and an entrepôt of trade, France’s first outpost in the Indian Ocean began in 1642 in a region of south-east Madagascar called Anosy. The settlement lasted 32 years. The abandonment of Fort Dauphin, as it become known, in 1674 and the shift of French Indian Ocean empire toward South Asia and île de Bourbon has obscured the scale, nature and astounding impact of the ‘lost’ French settlement. Because Fort Dauphin …
African Diasporas and the Atlantic
The Atlantic is one of three broad regions of African dispersion outside the continent. First articulated at an African center of research and among scholars who taught about the departure of slaves into the Indian Ocean from their own shores, Shepperson's notion of African diaspora found its intellectual home an ocean away, in Atlantic America. In part, however, the African diaspora remains primarily a matter of Atlantic concern because scholars…
African Slave Trades in Global Perspective
Slave trading is a salient theme in African history and in the continent’s global connections between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries. This chapter focuses on the economic dimensions of African slave trades, summarizes the state of research on the size and demography of slaving, and explores the commodity trades of which slaving was a part. It argues that whereas the slave trades have typically been studied ocean-by-ocean with Africa as a p…
Fragments of an Indian Ocean Life: Aristide Corroller Between Islands and Empires
Born on Île de France in late 1799 to a French father and a free mixed-race mother from Fort-Dauphin in southeast Madagascar, Aristide Corroller gained an education at Port-Louis but departed to pursue a political career in Madagascar after 1815. Corroller first assisted his maternal uncles to capture the sovereignty of Madagascar’s central eastern coast (Ivondro-Tamatave-Foulpointe) but then entered the service of King Radama of Imerina. He rose…
The Vernacular Life of the Street: Ratsitatanina and Indian Ocean Créolité1
The record of an alleged conspiracy of Madagascar-born slaves and apprentices in Mauritius during 1822 offers a useful vantage onto the vernacular life of the street in the colonial Mascarene islands of the western Indian Ocean. This article examines details of the alleged conspiracy to propose that Ratsitatanina, the accused ringleader, neither planned nor participated in a servile revolt. A close reading of the trial record, however, suggests t…
Horrid Journeying: Narratives of Enslavement and the Global African Diaspora
Since its inception as a concept in the late 1960s, the African diaspora has channeled scholarly interest primarily toward African migrations beyond sub-Saharan Africa. This article outlines a method for the study of African diasporas within sub-Saharan Africa through a focus on consciousness of placement and displacement as emerging in African narratives of enslavement. The consciousness of original placement and of estrangement from home spun b…
Colonies Lost: God, Hunger, and Conflict in Anosy (Madagascar) to 1674
Research Article| August 01 2007 Colonies Lost: God, Hunger, and Conflict in Anosy (Madagascar) to 1674 Pier M. Larson Pier M. Larson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 345–366. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Pier M. Larson; Colonies Lost: …
Enslaved Malagasy and ‘Le Travail De La Parole’ in the Pre-Revolutionary Mascarenes
Malagasy speakers probably formed the single largest native speech community among slaves dispersed into the western Indian Ocean between 1500 and 1900. In the eighteenth-century Mascarenes, Malagasy parlers (dialects) served as a contact language, understood both by persons born in Madagascar and by those with no direct ties to the island. Catholic missionaries working in Bourbon and Île de France frequently evangelized among sick and newly dise…
Malagasy at the Mascarenes: Publishing in a Servile Vernacular before the French Revolution
European expansion from the fifteenth century produced much writing on, and sometimes in, non-European languages that served a broad array of imperial interests. Most European ventures into what one scholar has termed 'colonial linguistics' were based on investigations among speakers of native tongues in the regions in which those speakers normally resided, twining language studies with observed 'native' cultural qualities and setting out territo…
Rejoinder - Larceny in Madagascar and Beyond
(2003). Rejoinder - Larceny in Madagascar and Beyond. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 127-146
History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822
History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822
Austronesian Mortuary Ritual in History: Transformations of Secondary Burial (Famadihana) in Highland Madagascar
This article identifies historical transformations in the fluid and regionally varied secondary burials, or famadihana, of highland Madagascar. While secondary burials were known during the early nineteenth century, most mortuary ritual at that time focused on primary interment. From the 1820s practices of secondary burial re-emerged from long-distance repatriation of soldiers' remains and from ceremonies of tomb-to-tomb transfer as kin built new…
A Cultural Politics of Bedchamber Construction and Progressive Dining in Antananarivo: Ritual Inversions During the Fandroana of 1817
Ancestors, Power and History in Madagascar
The peoples of Madagascar are renowned for the prominence they give to the dead. In this edited volume, regional specialists reassess the significance of ancestors for changing relations of power, emerging identities, and local historical consciousness. Case-studies include The Royal Bath of 1817 (Pier Larson), Succession in an Urbanized Sakalava Kingdom (Lesley Sharp), The Antankaraìa Ritual Cycle (Michael Lambek, Andrew Walsh), Nineteenth-Centu…
Reconsidering Trauma, Identity, and the African Diaspora: Enslavement and Historical Memory in Nineteenth-Century Highland Madagascar
N our time, collective identities and memories of trauma are deeply intertwined. Most ethnic minorities anchor their collective identities in the remembrance of past and present victimization. Victims of social trauma and their descendants often engage in purposeful and explicit remembering as a form of empowerment and identity formation. Conversely, perpetrators and their descendants seek to obliterate and question the validity of such memories …
Capacities and Modes of Thinking”: Intellectual Engagements and Subaltern Hegemony in the Early History of Malagasy Christianity
“Capacities and Modes of Thinking”: Intellectual Engagements and Subaltern Hegemony in the Early History of Malagasy Christianity Pier M. Larson Pier M. Larson Assistant professor of African history Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 102, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 969–1002, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/102.4.969 Published: 01 October 1997
Capacities and Modes of Thinking: Intellectual Engagements and Subaltern Hegemony in the Early History of Malagasy Christianity
Pier M. Larson, "Capacities and Modes of Thinking": Intellectual Engagements and Subaltern Hegemony in the Early History of Malagasy Christianity, The American Historical Review, Vol. 102, No. 4 (Oct., 1997), pp. 969-1002
A Cultural Politics of Bedchamber Construction and Progressive Dining in Antananarivo: Ritual Inversions During the Fandroa.Na of 1817
L'A. montre que l'arrivee de Hastie, envoye special du gouvernement anglais, a Antananarivo en aout 1817, fut mise en scene par le souverain de Merina, Radama I, pour coincider avec le cycle rituel du Fandroana ou bain royal. Ce bain royal survient a un moment de grande tension politique ou Radama est sur le point de briser le pouvoir des conseillers de son pere en passant une alliance avec l'Angleterre et en mettant fin a la traite des esclaves …
A Cultural Politics of Bedchamber Construction and Progressive Dining in Antananarivo: Ritual Inversions during the Fandroana of 1817
Desperately seeking 'the Merina' (Central Madagascar): Reading ethnonyms and their semantic fields in African identity histories
This article is an exploration into what a temporally and semantically ‘deep’ reading of African identity names reveals not only about the shifting meanings of ethnic naming over time but about the nature and definition of ethnic identity itself. Scholars have long recognized that identities are socially and historically constructed yet failed to sufficiently account for continuing shifts and transformations of identity consciousness within named…
Les Africaines: Histoire des Femmes d'Afrique Noire du XIXe au XXe Siecle
Multiple Narratives, Gendered Voices: Remembering the past in Highland Central Madagascar
Pendant longtemps, le « Tantara ny Andriana » a ete la seule source analysee pour aborder l'histoire des Hautes-Terres centrales de Madagascar. Or cet ensemble de recits ne relatait que l'histoire des chefs, des rois et des reines de la lignee du fondateur du royaume de Merina, Andrianampoinimerina. Des visions historiques alternatives apparurent avec les « firenena », groupes de descendance cognatique, qui raconterent leurs traditions de Vakinan…
History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822
Capacities and Modes of Thinking: Intellectual Engagements and Subaltern Hegemony in the Early History of Malagasy Christianity
Pier M. Larson, "Capacities and Modes of Thinking": Intellectual Engagements and Subaltern Hegemony in the Early History of Malagasy Christianity, The American Historical Review, Vol. 102, No. 4 (Oct., 1997), pp. 969-1002
Desperately seeking 'the Merina' (Central Madagascar): Reading ethnonyms and their semantic fields in African identity histories
This article is an exploration into what a temporally and semantically ‘deep’ reading of African identity names reveals not only about the shifting meanings of ethnic naming over time but about the nature and definition of ethnic identity itself. Scholars have long recognized that identities are socially and historically constructed yet failed to sufficiently account for continuing shifts and transformations of identity consciousness within named…
Ancestors, Power and History in Madagascar
The peoples of Madagascar are renowned for the prominence they give to the dead. In this edited volume, regional specialists reassess the significance of ancestors for changing relations of power, emerging identities, and local historical consciousness. Case-studies include The Royal Bath of 1817 (Pier Larson), Succession in an Urbanized Sakalava Kingdom (Lesley Sharp), The Antankaraìa Ritual Cycle (Michael Lambek, Andrew Walsh), Nineteenth-Centu…
Reconsidering Trauma, Identity, and the African Diaspora: Enslavement and Historical Memory in Nineteenth-Century Highland Madagascar
N our time, collective identities and memories of trauma are deeply intertwined. Most ethnic minorities anchor their collective identities in the remembrance of past and present victimization. Victims of social trauma and their descendants often engage in purposeful and explicit remembering as a form of empowerment and identity formation. Conversely, perpetrators and their descendants seek to obliterate and question the validity of such memories …
Austronesian Mortuary Ritual in History: Transformations of Secondary Burial (Famadihana) in Highland Madagascar
This article identifies historical transformations in the fluid and regionally varied secondary burials, or famadihana, of highland Madagascar. While secondary burials were known during the early nineteenth century, most mortuary ritual at that time focused on primary interment. From the 1820s practices of secondary burial re-emerged from long-distance repatriation of soldiers' remains and from ceremonies of tomb-to-tomb transfer as kin built new…
Enslaved Malagasy and ‘Le Travail De La Parole’ in the Pre-Revolutionary Mascarenes
Malagasy speakers probably formed the single largest native speech community among slaves dispersed into the western Indian Ocean between 1500 and 1900. In the eighteenth-century Mascarenes, Malagasy parlers (dialects) served as a contact language, understood both by persons born in Madagascar and by those with no direct ties to the island. Catholic missionaries working in Bourbon and Île de France frequently evangelized among sick and newly dise…
Capacities and Modes of Thinking”: Intellectual Engagements and Subaltern Hegemony in the Early History of Malagasy Christianity
“Capacities and Modes of Thinking”: Intellectual Engagements and Subaltern Hegemony in the Early History of Malagasy Christianity Pier M. Larson Pier M. Larson Assistant professor of African history Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 102, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 969–1002, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/102.4.969 Published: 01 October 1997
Horrid Journeying: Narratives of Enslavement and the Global African Diaspora
Since its inception as a concept in the late 1960s, the African diaspora has channeled scholarly interest primarily toward African migrations beyond sub-Saharan Africa. This article outlines a method for the study of African diasporas within sub-Saharan Africa through a focus on consciousness of placement and displacement as emerging in African narratives of enslavement. The consciousness of original placement and of estrangement from home spun b…
Colonies Lost: God, Hunger, and Conflict in Anosy (Madagascar) to 1674
Research Article| August 01 2007 Colonies Lost: God, Hunger, and Conflict in Anosy (Madagascar) to 1674 Pier M. Larson Pier M. Larson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 345–366. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Pier M. Larson; Colonies Lost: …
Fragments of an Indian Ocean Life: Aristide Corroller Between Islands and Empires
Born on Île de France in late 1799 to a French father and a free mixed-race mother from Fort-Dauphin in southeast Madagascar, Aristide Corroller gained an education at Port-Louis but departed to pursue a political career in Madagascar after 1815. Corroller first assisted his maternal uncles to capture the sovereignty of Madagascar’s central eastern coast (Ivondro-Tamatave-Foulpointe) but then entered the service of King Radama of Imerina. He rose…
Les Africaines: Histoire des Femmes d'Afrique Noire du XIXe au XXe Siecle
Multiple Narratives, Gendered Voices: Remembering the past in Highland Central Madagascar
Pendant longtemps, le « Tantara ny Andriana » a ete la seule source analysee pour aborder l'histoire des Hautes-Terres centrales de Madagascar. Or cet ensemble de recits ne relatait que l'histoire des chefs, des rois et des reines de la lignee du fondateur du royaume de Merina, Andrianampoinimerina. Des visions historiques alternatives apparurent avec les « firenena », groupes de descendance cognatique, qui raconterent leurs traditions de Vakinan…
Malagasy at the Mascarenes: Publishing in a Servile Vernacular before the French Revolution
European expansion from the fifteenth century produced much writing on, and sometimes in, non-European languages that served a broad array of imperial interests. Most European ventures into what one scholar has termed 'colonial linguistics' were based on investigations among speakers of native tongues in the regions in which those speakers normally resided, twining language studies with observed 'native' cultural qualities and setting out territo…
A Cultural Politics of Bedchamber Construction and Progressive Dining in Antananarivo: Ritual Inversions During the Fandroa.Na of 1817
L'A. montre que l'arrivee de Hastie, envoye special du gouvernement anglais, a Antananarivo en aout 1817, fut mise en scene par le souverain de Merina, Radama I, pour coincider avec le cycle rituel du Fandroana ou bain royal. Ce bain royal survient a un moment de grande tension politique ou Radama est sur le point de briser le pouvoir des conseillers de son pere en passant une alliance avec l'Angleterre et en mettant fin a la traite des esclaves …
Multiple Narratives, Gendered Voices: Remembering the past in Highland Central Madagascar
Pendant longtemps, le « Tantara ny Andriana » a ete la seule source analysee pour aborder l'histoire des Hautes-Terres centrales de Madagascar. Or cet ensemble de recits ne relatait que l'histoire des chefs, des rois et des reines de la lignee du fondateur du royaume de Merina, Andrianampoinimerina. Des visions historiques alternatives apparurent avec les « firenena », groupes de descendance cognatique, qui raconterent leurs traditions de Vakinan…
Desperately seeking 'the Merina' (Central Madagascar): Reading ethnonyms and their semantic fields in African identity histories
This article is an exploration into what a temporally and semantically ‘deep’ reading of African identity names reveals not only about the shifting meanings of ethnic naming over time but about the nature and definition of ethnic identity itself. Scholars have long recognized that identities are socially and historically constructed yet failed to sufficiently account for continuing shifts and transformations of identity consciousness within named…
Les Africaines: Histoire des Femmes d'Afrique Noire du XIXe au XXe Siecle
Capacities and Modes of Thinking”: Intellectual Engagements and Subaltern Hegemony in the Early History of Malagasy Christianity
“Capacities and Modes of Thinking”: Intellectual Engagements and Subaltern Hegemony in the Early History of Malagasy Christianity Pier M. Larson Pier M. Larson Assistant professor of African history Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 102, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 969–1002, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/102.4.969 Published: 01 October 1997
Capacities and Modes of Thinking: Intellectual Engagements and Subaltern Hegemony in the Early History of Malagasy Christianity
Pier M. Larson, "Capacities and Modes of Thinking": Intellectual Engagements and Subaltern Hegemony in the Early History of Malagasy Christianity, The American Historical Review, Vol. 102, No. 4 (Oct., 1997), pp. 969-1002
A Cultural Politics of Bedchamber Construction and Progressive Dining in Antananarivo: Ritual Inversions During the Fandroa.Na of 1817
L'A. montre que l'arrivee de Hastie, envoye special du gouvernement anglais, a Antananarivo en aout 1817, fut mise en scene par le souverain de Merina, Radama I, pour coincider avec le cycle rituel du Fandroana ou bain royal. Ce bain royal survient a un moment de grande tension politique ou Radama est sur le point de briser le pouvoir des conseillers de son pere en passant une alliance avec l'Angleterre et en mettant fin a la traite des esclaves …
A Cultural Politics of Bedchamber Construction and Progressive Dining in Antananarivo: Ritual Inversions during the Fandroana of 1817
A Cultural Politics of Bedchamber Construction and Progressive Dining in Antananarivo: Ritual Inversions During the Fandroana of 1817
Ancestors, Power and History in Madagascar
The peoples of Madagascar are renowned for the prominence they give to the dead. In this edited volume, regional specialists reassess the significance of ancestors for changing relations of power, emerging identities, and local historical consciousness. Case-studies include The Royal Bath of 1817 (Pier Larson), Succession in an Urbanized Sakalava Kingdom (Lesley Sharp), The Antankaraìa Ritual Cycle (Michael Lambek, Andrew Walsh), Nineteenth-Centu…
Reconsidering Trauma, Identity, and the African Diaspora: Enslavement and Historical Memory in Nineteenth-Century Highland Madagascar
N our time, collective identities and memories of trauma are deeply intertwined. Most ethnic minorities anchor their collective identities in the remembrance of past and present victimization. Victims of social trauma and their descendants often engage in purposeful and explicit remembering as a form of empowerment and identity formation. Conversely, perpetrators and their descendants seek to obliterate and question the validity of such memories …
History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822
Austronesian Mortuary Ritual in History: Transformations of Secondary Burial (Famadihana) in Highland Madagascar
This article identifies historical transformations in the fluid and regionally varied secondary burials, or famadihana, of highland Madagascar. While secondary burials were known during the early nineteenth century, most mortuary ritual at that time focused on primary interment. From the 1820s practices of secondary burial re-emerged from long-distance repatriation of soldiers' remains and from ceremonies of tomb-to-tomb transfer as kin built new…
History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822
Rejoinder - Larceny in Madagascar and Beyond
(2003). Rejoinder - Larceny in Madagascar and Beyond. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 127-146
Colonies Lost: God, Hunger, and Conflict in Anosy (Madagascar) to 1674
Research Article| August 01 2007 Colonies Lost: God, Hunger, and Conflict in Anosy (Madagascar) to 1674 Pier M. Larson Pier M. Larson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 345–366. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Pier M. Larson; Colonies Lost: …
Enslaved Malagasy and ‘Le Travail De La Parole’ in the Pre-Revolutionary Mascarenes
Malagasy speakers probably formed the single largest native speech community among slaves dispersed into the western Indian Ocean between 1500 and 1900. In the eighteenth-century Mascarenes, Malagasy parlers (dialects) served as a contact language, understood both by persons born in Madagascar and by those with no direct ties to the island. Catholic missionaries working in Bourbon and Île de France frequently evangelized among sick and newly dise…
Malagasy at the Mascarenes: Publishing in a Servile Vernacular before the French Revolution
European expansion from the fifteenth century produced much writing on, and sometimes in, non-European languages that served a broad array of imperial interests. Most European ventures into what one scholar has termed 'colonial linguistics' were based on investigations among speakers of native tongues in the regions in which those speakers normally resided, twining language studies with observed 'native' cultural qualities and setting out territo…
The Vernacular Life of the Street: Ratsitatanina and Indian Ocean Créolité1
The record of an alleged conspiracy of Madagascar-born slaves and apprentices in Mauritius during 1822 offers a useful vantage onto the vernacular life of the street in the colonial Mascarene islands of the western Indian Ocean. This article examines details of the alleged conspiracy to propose that Ratsitatanina, the accused ringleader, neither planned nor participated in a servile revolt. A close reading of the trial record, however, suggests t…
Horrid Journeying: Narratives of Enslavement and the Global African Diaspora
Since its inception as a concept in the late 1960s, the African diaspora has channeled scholarly interest primarily toward African migrations beyond sub-Saharan Africa. This article outlines a method for the study of African diasporas within sub-Saharan Africa through a focus on consciousness of placement and displacement as emerging in African narratives of enslavement. The consciousness of original placement and of estrangement from home spun b…
Fragments of an Indian Ocean Life: Aristide Corroller Between Islands and Empires
Born on Île de France in late 1799 to a French father and a free mixed-race mother from Fort-Dauphin in southeast Madagascar, Aristide Corroller gained an education at Port-Louis but departed to pursue a political career in Madagascar after 1815. Corroller first assisted his maternal uncles to capture the sovereignty of Madagascar’s central eastern coast (Ivondro-Tamatave-Foulpointe) but then entered the service of King Radama of Imerina. He rose…
African Slave Trades in Global Perspective
Slave trading is a salient theme in African history and in the continent’s global connections between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries. This chapter focuses on the economic dimensions of African slave trades, summarizes the state of research on the size and demography of slaving, and explores the commodity trades of which slaving was a part. It argues that whereas the slave trades have typically been studied ocean-by-ocean with Africa as a p…
African Diasporas and the Atlantic
The Atlantic is one of three broad regions of African dispersion outside the continent. First articulated at an African center of research and among scholars who taught about the departure of slaves into the Indian Ocean from their own shores, Shepperson's notion of African diaspora found its intellectual home an ocean away, in Atlantic America. In part, however, the African diaspora remains primarily a matter of Atlantic concern because scholars…
Play and Possession: Sex, Marriage and Household at Fort Dauphin (Madagascar), c.1660s
Imagined as a colony of settlement and an entrepôt of trade, France’s first outpost in the Indian Ocean began in 1642 in a region of south-east Madagascar called Anosy. The settlement lasted 32 years. The abandonment of Fort Dauphin, as it become known, in 1674 and the shift of French Indian Ocean empire toward South Asia and île de Bourbon has obscured the scale, nature and astounding impact of the ‘lost’ French settlement. Because Fort Dauphin …
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