Andrew Walsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Walsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Walsh |
| SIGNATURE | WALSH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1438-1492 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 304 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
HIV in Madagascar: Cause for Alarm
In line with the work of a growing number of concerned researchers, this brief article draws attention to certain features of Madagascar's looming HIV crisis. Reporting on the findings of a survey conducted with patients of a clinic that has recently hosted a large-scale screening program, we focus especially on what is and is not known about the transmission, effects, and treatment of HIV, and on why an elevated infection rate among the clientel…
Managing community-based conservation in Bobaomby, Madagascar
Conservation and development projects that prescribe the participation of local stakeholders in decision-making around the sustainable management of their own ecosystems have become commonplace in Madagascar in recent decades, as have scholarly critiques questioning the likelihood that such “community-based conservation” (CBC) efforts can achieve the win-win scenarios they purport to offer Malagasy communities and ecosystems. This article, co-aut…
Ethnographic Alchemy
The ordinary ethics of charcoal in northern Madagascar
Charcoal producers are among the most frequently maligned entrepreneurs in Madagascar, often singled out in conservation reports and targeted in conservation measures as enemies of the island's threatened forests and ecosystems. And yet charcoal remains an important cooking fuel and thus a primary energy commodity for many people on the island. This essay addresses the ordinary ethics of charcoal production and consumption in northern Madagascar,…
The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America
As recently as the 1960s, more than half of all American adults belonged to just a handful of mainline Protestant denominations-Presbyterian, UCC, Disciples of Christ, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, and American Baptist. Presidents, congressmen, judges, business leaders, and other members of the elite overwhelmingly came from such backgrounds. But by 2010, fewer than 13 percent of adults belonged to a mainline Protestant church. What does the tw…
Gerald Brenan: Hispanophile or Hispanophobe? A Critical Re-reading of The Face of Spain
This article seeks to analyse the reasons for the misrepresentation of Gerald Brenan's work in Spain through a detailed re-reading of The Face of Spain. Although Brenan is generally held to be the most prestigious Anglo-American Hispanist of the twentieth century, it is the contention of the present article that this construction of his literary identity in Spanish literary and political circles has been based on a frequently acritical or even no…
Lost and/or left behind in a Malagasy outpost of the 'underworld of gemstones
In the once booming, but now slumping, northern Malagasy sapphire mining town of Ambondromifehy, people make do in the face of uncertainty. As a place of internal migrants organized around the mining and trade of a commodity destined for complex and fickle foreign markets, this town features a wide range of distinctive arrangements and compromises. Of special concern here are the arrangements through which people strive to live responsibly - in a…
Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
(2012). Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. Political Theology: Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 652-655
Made in Madagascar: Sapphires, Ecotourism, and the Global Bazaar
References Index
After the Rush: Living With Uncertainty in a Malagasy Mining Town
This article addresses the uncertainties of life in the once booming, but now declining, centre of northern Madagascar's sapphire trade. Although the characteristic features of small-scale mining boomtowns have become well known to many through research on gold, diamond and other rushes throughout Africa and elsewhere in the world, relatively little is known of what happens to such distinctive communities after they boom. What becomes of the uniq…
James Dunlop's Historical Catalogue of Southern Nebulae and Clusters
In 1826 James Dunlop compiled the second ever catalogue of southern star clusters, nebulae and galaxies from Parramatta (NSW, Australia) using a 23-cm reflecting telescope. Initially acclaimed, the catalogue and author were later criticised and condemned by others—including Sir John Herschel— and both the catalogue and author are now largely unknown. The criticism of the catalogue centred on the large number of fictitious or 'missing' objects, ye…
The commodification of fetishes: Telling the difference between natural and synthetic sapphires
On the basis of multisited research concerning the international sapphire trade, I discuss what stories told about natural sapphires can reveal about why and how people value these stones. Because the stuff of sapphires (corundum) can be cheaply synthesized in a laboratory, what is perhaps most distinctive and valuable about natural sapphires is their geological origins, a fact that people in the trade recognize and emphasize in their marketing o…
Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea. Paige West
Nobody has a money taboo: Situating ethics in a northern Malagasy sapphire mining town
The Obvious Aspects of Ecological Underprivilege in Ankarana, Northern Madagascar
On the basis of research conducted in the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar, I discuss the speculating that Malagasy participants in the local sapphire trade do about foreign ecotourists who come to this region. Although some have been promoting international ecotourism in the region as a viable means to a sustainable future for local people and ecosystems, others, including many of the observers discussed here, see the rise of the ecotouris…
Soa's Version: Ironic Form and Content in The Self-Account of A Transnational métisse Narrator
In this article I explore the links between the form and content of narratives collected from a young Malagasy/French woman, named Soa, who has recently moved from Madagascar to France. Soa's self-account is riddled with stories that point out the ambiguities inherent in her experience of life as a woman with feet, and obligations, in two worlds at once. Rather than indicating her confusion or uncertainty, it is argued here that these stories, an…
In the Wake of Things: Speculating in and about Sapphires in Northern Madagascar
This article discusses the interrelatedness of two sorts of speculation undertaken by Malagasy sapphire miners and traders involved in the northern Malagasy sapphire trade: first, the speculating that these people do in sapphires, and, second, the speculating that they do about the uses to which sapphires are put by foreigners. Although Malagasy people involved in the local trade know a great deal about how sapphires might be profitably traded, m…
Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery and Diplomacy in Madagascar
Foreword by Zina Andrianarivelo-RazafyForeword by Shirley E.
"Hot money" and daring consumption in a northern Malagasy sapphire-mining town
In Ambondromifehy, a sapphire-mining town in northern Madagascar, young men earn and spend a great deal of what some call "hot money." Rather than invest their earnings with long-term intentions considered responsible and proper by some around them, they consume "daringly" by spending money to fulfill immediate desires. I argue that such "daring consumption" might be understood as the active response of young men who refuse the passive roles allo…
Preserving Bodies, Saving Souls: Religious Incongruity in a Northern Malagasy Mining Town
This article discusses the manifestation of incongruent religious ideals in a northern Malagasy sapphire mining community. It focuses particularly on how members of an Evangelical Christian congregation and long-time resident animists of the place interpret one another's practices, and on how these interpretations reflect a fundamental disparity in how they understand the material world that they share. It argues that the conflict that has emerge…
Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar
Responsibility, Taboos and 'The Freedom to do Otherwise' in Ankarana, Northern Madagascar
Drawing inspiration from Barry Barnes's recent depiction of societies as 'systems of responsibilities', this article discusses the ways in which taboos in the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar indicate the mutual responsibility of people and the traditional authorities that they recognize. It is argued that people who respect taboos associated with a traditional polity in this region indicate how they are at once responsible to the sacred en…
When Origins Matter: The Politics of Commemoration in Northern Madagascar
This article discusses different understandings of the origins of a ritual associated with the Antankaraña polity of northern Madagascar. If we are to understand how history is "made" differently at different points in time, we must consider the interrelatedness of historical narratives and the sociopolitical contexts in which they are produced and interpreted. By focusing on one purportedly commemorative rite and the different ways in which it h…
What Makes (the) Antankarana, Antankarana? Reckoning Group Identity in Northern Madagascar
This paper discusses different ways of reckoning group identity in the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar. It focuses on two distinct but related models that people employ in construing the meaning of the term 'Antankarana' and identifying the boundaries of the collective it denotes. The first, inclusive, model suggests that any person who respects the moral and political orders of the region can be classified among Antankarana, while the sec…
The Imagined Community of the Antankaraña: Identity, History, and Ritual in Northern Madagascar
"Hot money" and daring consumption in a northern Malagasy sapphire-mining town
In Ambondromifehy, a sapphire-mining town in northern Madagascar, young men earn and spend a great deal of what some call "hot money." Rather than invest their earnings with long-term intentions considered responsible and proper by some around them, they consume "daringly" by spending money to fulfill immediate desires. I argue that such "daring consumption" might be understood as the active response of young men who refuse the passive roles allo…
In the Wake of Things: Speculating in and about Sapphires in Northern Madagascar
This article discusses the interrelatedness of two sorts of speculation undertaken by Malagasy sapphire miners and traders involved in the northern Malagasy sapphire trade: first, the speculating that these people do in sapphires, and, second, the speculating that they do about the uses to which sapphires are put by foreigners. Although Malagasy people involved in the local trade know a great deal about how sapphires might be profitably traded, m…
After the Rush: Living With Uncertainty in a Malagasy Mining Town
This article addresses the uncertainties of life in the once booming, but now declining, centre of northern Madagascar's sapphire trade. Although the characteristic features of small-scale mining boomtowns have become well known to many through research on gold, diamond and other rushes throughout Africa and elsewhere in the world, relatively little is known of what happens to such distinctive communities after they boom. What becomes of the uniq…
Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar
Responsibility, Taboos and 'The Freedom to do Otherwise' in Ankarana, Northern Madagascar
Drawing inspiration from Barry Barnes's recent depiction of societies as 'systems of responsibilities', this article discusses the ways in which taboos in the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar indicate the mutual responsibility of people and the traditional authorities that they recognize. It is argued that people who respect taboos associated with a traditional polity in this region indicate how they are at once responsible to the sacred en…
The commodification of fetishes: Telling the difference between natural and synthetic sapphires
On the basis of multisited research concerning the international sapphire trade, I discuss what stories told about natural sapphires can reveal about why and how people value these stones. Because the stuff of sapphires (corundum) can be cheaply synthesized in a laboratory, what is perhaps most distinctive and valuable about natural sapphires is their geological origins, a fact that people in the trade recognize and emphasize in their marketing o…
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…
The Obvious Aspects of Ecological Underprivilege in Ankarana, Northern Madagascar
On the basis of research conducted in the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar, I discuss the speculating that Malagasy participants in the local sapphire trade do about foreign ecotourists who come to this region. Although some have been promoting international ecotourism in the region as a viable means to a sustainable future for local people and ecosystems, others, including many of the observers discussed here, see the rise of the ecotouris…
Preserving Bodies, Saving Souls: Religious Incongruity in a Northern Malagasy Mining Town
This article discusses the manifestation of incongruent religious ideals in a northern Malagasy sapphire mining community. It focuses particularly on how members of an Evangelical Christian congregation and long-time resident animists of the place interpret one another's practices, and on how these interpretations reflect a fundamental disparity in how they understand the material world that they share. It argues that the conflict that has emerge…
Nobody has a money taboo: Situating ethics in a northern Malagasy sapphire mining town
The Imagined Community of the Antankarana: Identity, History, and Ritual in Northern Madagascar
Michael Lambek, Andrew Walsh, The Imagined Community of the Antankaraña: Identity, History, and Ritual in Northern Madagascar, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 27, Fasc. 3, Religion in Madagascar (Aug., 1997), pp. 308-333
The ordinary ethics of charcoal in northern Madagascar
Charcoal producers are among the most frequently maligned entrepreneurs in Madagascar, often singled out in conservation reports and targeted in conservation measures as enemies of the island's threatened forests and ecosystems. And yet charcoal remains an important cooking fuel and thus a primary energy commodity for many people on the island. This essay addresses the ordinary ethics of charcoal production and consumption in northern Madagascar,…
Lost and/or left behind in a Malagasy outpost of the 'underworld of gemstones
In the once booming, but now slumping, northern Malagasy sapphire mining town of Ambondromifehy, people make do in the face of uncertainty. As a place of internal migrants organized around the mining and trade of a commodity destined for complex and fickle foreign markets, this town features a wide range of distinctive arrangements and compromises. Of special concern here are the arrangements through which people strive to live responsibly - in a…
When Origins Matter: The Politics of Commemoration in Northern Madagascar
This article discusses different understandings of the origins of a ritual associated with the Antankaraña polity of northern Madagascar. If we are to understand how history is "made" differently at different points in time, we must consider the interrelatedness of historical narratives and the sociopolitical contexts in which they are produced and interpreted. By focusing on one purportedly commemorative rite and the different ways in which it h…
Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery and Diplomacy in Madagascar
Foreword by Zina Andrianarivelo-RazafyForeword by Shirley E.
What Makes (the) Antankarana, Antankarana? Reckoning Group Identity in Northern Madagascar
This paper discusses different ways of reckoning group identity in the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar. It focuses on two distinct but related models that people employ in construing the meaning of the term 'Antankarana' and identifying the boundaries of the collective it denotes. The first, inclusive, model suggests that any person who respects the moral and political orders of the region can be classified among Antankarana, while the sec…
Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
(2012). Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. Political Theology: Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 652-655
The Imagined Community of the Antankarana: Identity, History, and Ritual in Northern Madagascar1
Les Antankarana occupent la partie la plus septentrionale de l'ile de Madagascar. En reflechissant sur la formation de leur identite, les A. affirment qu'elle est moins constitue selon des categories conceptuelles qu'au moyen d'un engagement dans un certain recit historique associe a sa remise en acte periodique grâce a un cycle de ceremonies. En abordant ce cycle, une attention particuliere doit etre apportee a ses qualites spatio-temporelles ai…
The Imagined Community of the Antankarana: Identity, History, and Ritual in Northern Madagascar
Michael Lambek, Andrew Walsh, The Imagined Community of the Antankaraña: Identity, History, and Ritual in Northern Madagascar, Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 27, Fasc. 3, Religion in Madagascar (Aug., 1997), pp. 308-333
The Imagined Community of the Antankaraña: Identity, History, and Ritual in Northern Madagascar
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…
When Origins Matter: The Politics of Commemoration in Northern Madagascar
This article discusses different understandings of the origins of a ritual associated with the Antankaraña polity of northern Madagascar. If we are to understand how history is "made" differently at different points in time, we must consider the interrelatedness of historical narratives and the sociopolitical contexts in which they are produced and interpreted. By focusing on one purportedly commemorative rite and the different ways in which it h…
What Makes (the) Antankarana, Antankarana? Reckoning Group Identity in Northern Madagascar
This paper discusses different ways of reckoning group identity in the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar. It focuses on two distinct but related models that people employ in construing the meaning of the term 'Antankarana' and identifying the boundaries of the collective it denotes. The first, inclusive, model suggests that any person who respects the moral and political orders of the region can be classified among Antankarana, while the sec…
Preserving Bodies, Saving Souls: Religious Incongruity in a Northern Malagasy Mining Town
This article discusses the manifestation of incongruent religious ideals in a northern Malagasy sapphire mining community. It focuses particularly on how members of an Evangelical Christian congregation and long-time resident animists of the place interpret one another's practices, and on how these interpretations reflect a fundamental disparity in how they understand the material world that they share. It argues that the conflict that has emerge…
Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar
Responsibility, Taboos and 'The Freedom to do Otherwise' in Ankarana, Northern Madagascar
Drawing inspiration from Barry Barnes's recent depiction of societies as 'systems of responsibilities', this article discusses the ways in which taboos in the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar indicate the mutual responsibility of people and the traditional authorities that they recognize. It is argued that people who respect taboos associated with a traditional polity in this region indicate how they are at once responsible to the sacred en…
Objects as Envoys: Cloth, Imagery and Diplomacy in Madagascar
Foreword by Zina Andrianarivelo-RazafyForeword by Shirley E.
"Hot money" and daring consumption in a northern Malagasy sapphire-mining town
In Ambondromifehy, a sapphire-mining town in northern Madagascar, young men earn and spend a great deal of what some call "hot money." Rather than invest their earnings with long-term intentions considered responsible and proper by some around them, they consume "daringly" by spending money to fulfill immediate desires. I argue that such "daring consumption" might be understood as the active response of young men who refuse the passive roles allo…
Soa's Version: Ironic Form and Content in The Self-Account of A Transnational métisse Narrator
In this article I explore the links between the form and content of narratives collected from a young Malagasy/French woman, named Soa, who has recently moved from Madagascar to France. Soa's self-account is riddled with stories that point out the ambiguities inherent in her experience of life as a woman with feet, and obligations, in two worlds at once. Rather than indicating her confusion or uncertainty, it is argued here that these stories, an…
In the Wake of Things: Speculating in and about Sapphires in Northern Madagascar
This article discusses the interrelatedness of two sorts of speculation undertaken by Malagasy sapphire miners and traders involved in the northern Malagasy sapphire trade: first, the speculating that these people do in sapphires, and, second, the speculating that they do about the uses to which sapphires are put by foreigners. Although Malagasy people involved in the local trade know a great deal about how sapphires might be profitably traded, m…
The Obvious Aspects of Ecological Underprivilege in Ankarana, Northern Madagascar
On the basis of research conducted in the Ankarana region of northern Madagascar, I discuss the speculating that Malagasy participants in the local sapphire trade do about foreign ecotourists who come to this region. Although some have been promoting international ecotourism in the region as a viable means to a sustainable future for local people and ecosystems, others, including many of the observers discussed here, see the rise of the ecotouris…
Nobody has a money taboo: Situating ethics in a northern Malagasy sapphire mining town
Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea. Paige West
James Dunlop's Historical Catalogue of Southern Nebulae and Clusters
In 1826 James Dunlop compiled the second ever catalogue of southern star clusters, nebulae and galaxies from Parramatta (NSW, Australia) using a 23-cm reflecting telescope. Initially acclaimed, the catalogue and author were later criticised and condemned by others—including Sir John Herschel— and both the catalogue and author are now largely unknown. The criticism of the catalogue centred on the large number of fictitious or 'missing' objects, ye…
The commodification of fetishes: Telling the difference between natural and synthetic sapphires
On the basis of multisited research concerning the international sapphire trade, I discuss what stories told about natural sapphires can reveal about why and how people value these stones. Because the stuff of sapphires (corundum) can be cheaply synthesized in a laboratory, what is perhaps most distinctive and valuable about natural sapphires is their geological origins, a fact that people in the trade recognize and emphasize in their marketing o…
Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
(2012). Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. Political Theology: Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 652-655
Made in Madagascar: Sapphires, Ecotourism, and the Global Bazaar
References Index
After the Rush: Living With Uncertainty in a Malagasy Mining Town
This article addresses the uncertainties of life in the once booming, but now declining, centre of northern Madagascar's sapphire trade. Although the characteristic features of small-scale mining boomtowns have become well known to many through research on gold, diamond and other rushes throughout Africa and elsewhere in the world, relatively little is known of what happens to such distinctive communities after they boom. What becomes of the uniq…
Gerald Brenan: Hispanophile or Hispanophobe? A Critical Re-reading of The Face of Spain
This article seeks to analyse the reasons for the misrepresentation of Gerald Brenan's work in Spain through a detailed re-reading of The Face of Spain. Although Brenan is generally held to be the most prestigious Anglo-American Hispanist of the twentieth century, it is the contention of the present article that this construction of his literary identity in Spanish literary and political circles has been based on a frequently acritical or even no…
Lost and/or left behind in a Malagasy outpost of the 'underworld of gemstones
In the once booming, but now slumping, northern Malagasy sapphire mining town of Ambondromifehy, people make do in the face of uncertainty. As a place of internal migrants organized around the mining and trade of a commodity destined for complex and fickle foreign markets, this town features a wide range of distinctive arrangements and compromises. Of special concern here are the arrangements through which people strive to live responsibly - in a…
The Future of Mainline Protestantism in America
As recently as the 1960s, more than half of all American adults belonged to just a handful of mainline Protestant denominations-Presbyterian, UCC, Disciples of Christ, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, and American Baptist. Presidents, congressmen, judges, business leaders, and other members of the elite overwhelmingly came from such backgrounds. But by 2010, fewer than 13 percent of adults belonged to a mainline Protestant church. What does the tw…
The ordinary ethics of charcoal in northern Madagascar
Charcoal producers are among the most frequently maligned entrepreneurs in Madagascar, often singled out in conservation reports and targeted in conservation measures as enemies of the island's threatened forests and ecosystems. And yet charcoal remains an important cooking fuel and thus a primary energy commodity for many people on the island. This essay addresses the ordinary ethics of charcoal production and consumption in northern Madagascar,…
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