People of the Sea
Subtitle: Identity and Descent among the Vezo of Madagascar (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780521024730
Subjects: Ethnography; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Madagascar; Africa - General; Anthropology - Cultural; History-Africa - General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Vezo (Malagasy people) Vezo (Malagasy people); Anthropology - General; Ethnic identity; Vezo (Malagasy people); Vezo (Malagazy people)
First sentence: This is the study of two different forms of identity, one which is achieved through activities performed in the present, the other which is given as an essence inherited from the past; one which is of a recognizable Austronesian character, for it is transformative, non--primordialist and non-essentialist, the other which bears instead a clear African imprint, for it is rooted in, and determined by, the unchangeable order of descent.