The land of no taboo: agrarian politics of neglect and care in Madagascar

References

• Akin, D. 2003. “Concealment, Confession, and Innovation in Kwaio Women’s Taboos.” American Ethnologist 30 (3): 381–400. doi: 10.1525/ae.2003.30.3.381
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Astuti, R. 2000. “Kindreds and Descent Groups: New Perspectives from Madagascar.” In Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship, edited by Janet Carsten, 90–103. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Barrows, R., and M. Roth. 1990. “Land Tenure and Investment in African Agriculture: Theory and Evidence.” The Journal of Modern African Studies 28 (2): 265–297. doi: 10.1017/S0022278X00054458
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bellemare, M. F. 2009. “Sharecropping, Insecure Land Rights and Land Titling Policies: A Case Study of Lac Alaotra, Madagascar.” Development Policy Review 27 (1): 87–106. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2009.00437.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bloch, M. 1971. Placing the Dead: Tombs, Ancestral Villages and Kinship Organization in Madagascar. Vol. 1. London: Seminar Press Limited.
   Google Scholar
• Bloch, M. 1977. “The Past and the Present in the Present.” Man 12: 278–292. doi: 10.2307/2800799
   Google Scholar
• Bloch, M. 1985. “Almost Eating the Ancestors.” Man 20: 631–646. doi: 10.2307/2802754
   Google Scholar
• Burnod, P., M. Gingembre, and R. A. Ratsialonana. 2013. “Competition Over Authority and Access: International Land Deals in Madagascar.” Development and Change 44 (2): 357–379. doi: 10.1111/dech.12015
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cole, J. 2001. Forget Colonialism?: Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
   Google Scholar
• Cole, J., and K. Middleton. 2001. “Rethinking Ancestors and Colonial Power in Madagascar.” Africa 71 (1): 1–37. doi: 10.3366/afr.2001.71.1.1
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Doolittle, A. A. 2007. “Native Land Tenure, Conservation, and Development in a Pseudo-Democracy: Sabah, Malaysia.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 34 (3–4): 474–497. doi: 10.1080/03066150701802793
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Douglas, M. 1966. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. New York: Pantheon.
   Google Scholar
• Dove, M. R. 1983. “Theories of Swidden Agriculture, and the Political Economy of Ignorance.” Agroforestry Systems 1 (2): 85–99. doi: 10.1007/BF00596351
   Google Scholar
• Dove, M. R., and D. M. Kammen. 1997. “The Epistemology of Sustainable Resource Use: Managing Forest Products, Swiddens, and High- Yielding Variety Crops.” Human Organization 56 (1): 91–101. doi: 10.17730/humo.56.1.l784408q35174516
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dove, M. R., P. E. Sajise, and A. A. Doolittle, eds. 2011. Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Fairhead, J., and M. Leach. 1995. “False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some West African Environmental Narratives.” World Development 23 (6): 1023–1035. doi: 10.1016/0305-750X(95)00026-9
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fairhead, J., and M. Leach. 1996. Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Fanony, F. 1975. Fasina: Dynamisme Social et Recours à la Tradition (Travaux et Documents XIV). Antananarivo: Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie de L’Université de Madagascar.
   Google Scholar
• Feeley-Harnik, G. 1991. Green Estate. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gavian, S., and M. Fafchamps. 1996. “Land Tenure and Allocative Efficiency in Niger.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78: 460–471. doi: 10.2307/1243717
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gezon, L. 1999. “Of Shrimps and Spirit Possession: Toward a Political Ecology of Resource Management in Northern Madagascar.” American Anthropologist 101 (1): 58–67. doi: 10.1525/aa.1999.101.1.58
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gordillo, G. R. 2014. Rubble: The Aftermath of Destruction. Durham: Duke University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hanson, P. W. 2007. “Governmentality, Language Ideology, and the Production of Needs in Malagasy Conservation and Development.” Cultural Anthropology 22 (2): 244–284. doi: 10.1525/can.2007.22.2.244
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Haugerud, A. 1983. “The Consequences of Land Tenure Reform Among Smallholders in the Kenya Highlands.” Rural Africana 15-16 (1983): 65–89.
   Google Scholar
• Jarosz, L. 1993. “Defining and Explaining Tropical Deforestation: Shifting Cultivation and Population Growth in Colonial Madagascar (1896–1940).” Economic Geography 69 (4): 366–379. doi: 10.2307/143595
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jarosz, L. A. 1994. “Taboo and Time-Work Experience in Madagascar.” Geographical Review 84: 439–450. doi: 10.2307/215758
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jones, J. P. G., M. Andriamarovololona, and N. Hockley. 2008. “The Importance of Taboos and Social Norms to Conservation in Madagascar.” Conservation Biology 22 (4): 976–986. doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00970.x
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Katz, E. G. 2000. “Social Capital and Natural Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Land Tenure and Natural Resource Management in Guatemala.” Land Economics 76: 114–132. doi: 10.2307/3147261
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Keller, E. 2005. The Road to Clarity: Seventh-Day Adventism in Madagascar. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Keller, E. 2008. “The Banana Plant and the Moon: Conservation and the Malagasy Ethos of Life in Masoala, Madagascar.” American Ethnologist 35 (4): 650–664. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00103.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Keller, E. 2015. Beyond the Lens of Conservation: Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of one Another. Vol. 20. New York: Berghahn Books.
   Google Scholar
• Kull, C. A. 2002. “Madagascar Aflame: Landscape Burning as Peasant Protest, Resistance, or a Resource Management Tool?” Political Geography 21 (7): 927–953. doi: 10.1016/S0962-6298(02)00054-9
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lambek, M. 1992. “Taboo as Cultural Practice Among Malagasy Speakers.” Man 27 (2): 245–266. doi: 10.2307/2804053
   Google Scholar
• Lambek, M. 2003. The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar. New York: Palgrave McMillan.
   Google Scholar
• Leach, E. 1964. Anthropological Aspects of Language: Animal Categories and Verbal Abuse. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Orr, Y. 2016. “Interspecies Semiotics and the Specter of Taboo: The Perception and Interpretation of Dogs and Rabies in Bali, Indonesia.” American Anthropologist 118 (1): 67–77. doi: 10.1111/aman.12448
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Osterhoudt, S. R. 2016. “Written With Seed: The Political Ecology of Memory in Madagascar.” Journal of Political Ecology 23: 264–278. doi: 10.2458/v23i1.20215
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Osterhoudt, S. R. 2017. Vanilla Landscapes: Meaning, Memory and the Cultivation of Place in Madagascar. Advances in Economic Botany Series. New York: New Your Botanical Garden Press.
   Google Scholar
• Rajan, S. R., and C. A. M. Duncan. 2013. “Ecologies of Hope: Environment, Technology and Habitation – Case Studies from the Intervenient Middle.” Journal of Political Ecology 20: 70–79. doi: 10.2458/v20i1.21758
   Google Scholar
• Rappaport, R. A. 1967. “Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People.” Ethnology 6 (1): 17–30. doi: 10.2307/3772735
   Google Scholar
• Ruud, J. 1960. Taboo: A Study of Malagasy Customs and Beliefs. Oslo: Oslo University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Scott, J. C. 1990. Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts. New Haven: Yale University press.
   Google Scholar
• Shipton, P., and M. Goheen. 1992. “Introduction: Understanding African Land-Holding: Power, Wealth, and Meaning.” Africa 62 (03): 207–325.
   Google Scholar
• Sodikoff, G. M. 2004. “Land and Languor: Ethical Imaginations of Work and Forest in Northeast Madagascar.” History and Anthropology 15 (4): 367–398. doi: 10.1080/027572004200315381
   Google Scholar
• Sodikoff, G. M. 2012a. Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Sodikoff, G. M. 2012b. “Totem and Taboo Reconsidered: Endangered Species and Moral Practice in Madagascar.” In The Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and Species Death, edited by G. M. Sodikoff, 67–86. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Soule, M. J., A. Tegene, and K. D. Wiebe. 2000. “Land Tenure and the Adoption of Conservation Practices.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82 (4): 993–1005. doi: 10.1111/0002-9092.00097
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stifel, D., M. Fafchamps, and B. Minten. 2011. “Taboos, Agriculture and Poverty.” Journal of Development Studies 47 (10): 1455–1481. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2011.561322
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tengö, M., and J. von Heland. 2011. “Adaptive Capacity of Local Indigenous Institutions: The Case of the Taboo Forests of Southern Madagascar.” In Adapting Institutions: Governance, Complexity and Social-Ecological Resilience, edited by E. Boyd and C. Folke, 37–74. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Tsing, A. L. 2015. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Turner, V. W. 1967. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Valeri, V. 2000. The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting, and Identity Among the Huaulu of the Moluccas. Madison: Univ of Wisconsin Press.
   Google Scholar
• Walsh, A. 2002. “Responsibility, Taboos and ‘The Freedom to do Otherwise’ in Ankarana, Northern Madagascar.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 8 (3): 451–468. doi: 10.1111/1467-9655.00117
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Walsh, A. 2005. “The Obvious Aspects of Ecological Underprivilege in Ankarana, Northern Madagascar.” American Anthropologist 107 (4): 654–665. doi: 10.1525/aa.2005.107.4.654
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Walsh, A. 2006. “‘Nobody has a Money Taboo’: Situating Ethics in a Northern Malagasy Sapphire Mining Town.” Anthropology Today 22 (4): 4–8. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2006.00447.x
   Google Scholar