From the publisher’s description:
While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared to have forgotten the colonial period in their daily lives. Then, during democratic elections in 1992-93, the terrifying memories came flooding back. Cole asks, How do once-colonized peoples remember the colonial period? Drawing on a fine-grained ethnography of the social practices of remembering and forgetting in one community, she develops a practice-based approach to social memory.
Cole, Jennifer (NHC Fellow, 1997–98). Forget Colonialism?: Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar. Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN 9780520926820.