Contest for land in Madagascar

CONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Land Competition and Human-Environment Relations in Madagascar Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Gwyn Campbell and Michael Lambek The Genetic Trail to Madagascar Himla Soodyall, Bharti Morar and Trefor Jenkins Don't we all Want a World Filled with Bright Faces and Fat-Cheeked Babies? Creating the State and Crafting Ideology in Eighteenth Century Imerina Victor Raharijaona and Susan Kus Forest Depletion in Imperial Madagascar, c.1790-1861 63 Gwyn Campbell Solving Madagascar: Science, Illustrations, and the Normalizing of Fauna of Nineteenth Century Madagascar Tom Anderson Lex Loci meets Lex Fori: Merging Customary Law and National Land Legislation in Madagascar Sandra J.T.M. Evers Land Rights and Alien Plants in Dryland Madagascar Karen Middleton Parenting through Boom and Bust in a Northern Malagasy Mining Town Andrew Walsh Discourse, Development and Legitimacy: Nature/Culture Dualism of Mining Engagements in Biodiversity Offsetting and Conservation in Madagascar Caroline Seagle How the Daewoo Attempted Land Acquisition Contributed to Madagascar' Political Crisis in 2009 Venusia Vinciguerra Index

Agriculture · Archaeology · Commons · CONTEST · Dominion · Dualism · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Geography · Ideology · Land tenure · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Africa · Economic conditions · Economic development · Human Ecology · Land use · Madagascar · Social conditions