This article analyses Malagasy notions of land as heritage through the concept of fomba gasy, known as ‘Malagasy customs’, within the context of foreign land acquisitions for mineral extraction. Fomba gasy is a concept intimately tied to land – as it provides a social, economic, existential, cultural, and ontological web, which ties past, present and future generations. Global or ‘western’ conceptualizations of heritage generally adopt a more static definition of land as their point of departure, wherein biodiversity or clearly demarcated ‘heritage sites’ become objects of frontier conservation. This vision directly conflicts with Malagasy conceptions and ontologies of fomba gasy – a concept i...
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This article analyses Malagasy notions of land as heritage through the concept of fomba gasy, known ...
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ABSTRACT: The specificity, uniqueness, and authenticity of a people is given by their social identit...
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The Malagasy practice of using trees to make history informs their attitudes toward nature and plays...
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This paper presents the findings of a study conducted in one of the sacred forests along the Kenya C...
Based on fieldwork undertaken in the Highlands of Madagascar, this paper analyses the growing local ...
This thesis investigates how perceptions of the past influence one indigenous group's interactions w...
This article analyses Malagasy notions of land as heritage through the concept of fomba gasy, known ...
Conflict over property and resource rights is a common product of the convergence of biodiversity co...
Most conservationists working in Madagascar recognise that if conservation goals are to be achieved,...
Qu’est-ce qui est à protéger et à transmettre de la forêt d’altitude d’Ankaratra, à Madagascar ? On ...
ABSTRACT: The specificity, uniqueness, and authenticity of a people is given by their social identit...
This article proposes a brief analysis of the process leading to the foundation of a new ancestral l...
Ethnographic accounts of the implementation and impact of safeguarding measures upon the communities...
The Malagasy practice of using trees to make history informs their attitudes toward nature and plays...
The article presents a microhistory of a work strike in an Integrated Conservation and Development P...
The Le Morne Brabant Peninsula in south-western Mauritius is known for the imposing mountain of Le M...
In this article, I bring together work in political ecology and environmental anthropology to examin...
This study focuses on a well-known biofuel battleground in Madagascar, highlighting the first case o...
This paper presents the findings of a study conducted in one of the sacred forests along the Kenya C...
Based on fieldwork undertaken in the Highlands of Madagascar, this paper analyses the growing local ...
This thesis investigates how perceptions of the past influence one indigenous group's interactions w...