Constructing history, culture and inequality: the Betsileo in the extreme southern highlands of Madagascar
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| adam_text | CONSTRUCTING HISTORY,
CULTURE AND INEQUALITY
The Betsileo in the Extreme Southern
Highlands of Madagascar
BY
SANDRAJ T M EVERS
• s
• 68
BRILL
LEIDEN • BOSTON • KOLN
CONTENTS
Notes on the Malagasy language xi
Acknowledgements xii
1 Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological
Considerations 1
Prologue 1
1 1 Theoretical considerations 2
1 2 Issues of slavery 3
Early kingdoms in the Highlands 6
The expanding Merina kingdom 7
Conclusion 10
13A brief overview of Madagascar 11
An island of migrants 11
A failed socialist experiment 13
Absolute poverty and the food poor 15
Infrastructure 16
Conclusion 17
1 4 Methodological considerations 18
Living and working in Marovato 19
Translation and transcription 24
Outline of the book 25
2 The Construction of Inequality among Migrants 28
2 1 Acquiring free descent status through tombs 29
2 2 The creation of Marovato 32
2 3 Identifying the Others 39
2 4 Olona madio, pure or clean people 43
2 5 Olona maloto, impure or dirt) people 45
3 Perpetuation of Social Hierarchy through Marriage 54
3 1 Marriage politics of free descent families 54
3 2 Crossing the conceptual boundary 59
Vlll CONTENTS
4 The Economics of Social Marginalisation 72
4 1 Land allocation as a political instrument 72
4 2 Using the harvest to enhance social status 79
4 3 Production and consumption 86
5 Marovato Revisited 93
The day of arrival 93
5 1 The mpikarama: changing village demographics 95
5 2 Randriamahalasa: the agent of change 98
5 3 Restricting access to the ruling Umpon-tany group 101
Tomb group association and land division 101
Status attribution: tompon-tany, mpiavy, mpikarama 103
How mpikarama become mpiavy 104
5 4 Economic influence of the mpikarama 106
Land use 106
Cultivation 107
Livestock 108
Prices of staple food products in 1996 110
5 5 Payment system of the mpikarama 111
6 The Fate of the Andevo 118
6 1 Andevo households 118
6 2 Mixed couples 125
63A brief comparative overview of 1992 and 1996 134
6 4 The methodological implications of the andevo
stories 134
7 The Process of Ancestralisation: Tombs, Funerals
and the Hereafter of Free Descent People 138
7 1 Concepts explained 141
Aina, hasina, hery: all that lives needs hasina 141
Hasina as source of social prestige and political
power 143
Hasina preservation 144
Fanahy and the ambiroa 145
7 2 Physical description of the tombs 146
7 3 How a Umpon-tany becomes an ancestor 148
Funeral: Pre-burial events 149
The world of the hereafter 153
The burial 155
CONTENTS IX
Toets ambiroa, the ritual of separation 159
Fiefana, completion of the funeral 159
7 4 How a migrant (mpuwy) becomes an ancestor 162
Funeral: Pre-burial events 162
The burial 164
8 Burial Practices of the Tombless 167
8 1 Andevo funerals 167
Soanirina s burial 168
Why do the andevo not perform the rituals
associated with the process of ancestralisation? 170
What would you do if you had a tomb? 173
8 2 Harnessing the forces of evil in day-to-day life:
poisoning, sorcery, witchcraft 175
(i) Fanomezana poizina (actual poisoning) 176
Who poisons and why? 177
How is the decision taken to poison
somebody? 179
Who administers the poison? 180
What happens after somebody has been
poisoned? 180
(ii) Fanqfody gasy (Malagasy medicine or
sorcery) 182
Cases of sorcery 182
The role of sorcery 184
(iii) Mosavy (witchcraft) 185
Who are seen as potential witches and
why? 186
How witches operate: two case studies 187
What do witches represent and why are
people afraid of them? 189
9 The Theory of Andevoness 191
9 1 Past manifestations of andevoness 192
Household slaves in Imerina 192
Imerina slaves had no descent groups, ancestors
of history 193
The impurity of slaves 195
The abolition of slavery 195
9 2 Current manifestations of andevoness 196
X CONTENTS
Features of andevoness in Merina society 197
9 3 The Marovato memory of the past 198
10 Conclusions and Comparative Theoretical Analyses 200
10 1 Marovato and frontier society theory 200
The production of frontiersmen 201
Movement in groups 204
The institutional vacuum 205
Pre-existing social models 206
Adherents as kinsmen 208
Adherents as subjects 208
Firstcomers and latecomers 209
Patrimonialism 209
10 2 Memory as cornerstone for the future: tombs,
ancestors and kinship 211
Bibliography 215
Appendices 225
Glossary 227
Informants Index 230
Marovato Map 1992 232
Marovato Map 1996 233
Description of the Purification Ritual 234
Index 237
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