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Madagascar presents a lucid view of an intriguing, simple, and struggling country that is unique in many respects. "There is no other place like it," states author Dr. Daniel Gade, and readers will be extensively enlightened as they journey through this land of red landscapes, strange animals, traditional cultures blended from Indonesian and African sources, and optimism amidst social change and enormous difficulties.

Gade introduces the reader first to the natural landscape of Madagascar, "The Great Red Island." while relating important categories of landforms, weather, water and vegetation to the human presence. Next, the major cultural sources and traditions of Madagascar are identified, and these are followed by a review of modern Malagasy society and economy. The book concludes with a forward-looking assessment of the current and near future status of the island country as a member of the world community of nations. ... Read more

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RARE MALAGASY LANGUAGE HISTORY OF THE FISAKANA REGION IN MADAGASCAR. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from African Arts, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2005. The length of the article is 2779 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Merina landscape in early nineteenth century highlands Madagascar.(Emerging Scholarship in African Art)
Author: Randall Bird
Publication: African Arts (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38Issue: 4Page: 18(8)

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Madagascar has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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In 1886, Queen Ranavalona III of the African island nation of Madagascaroffered U.S. President Grover Cleveland two striking handwoven silk textiles. The Americangovernment later reciprocated with an autographed photographic portrait of the president.The essays in Objects as Envoys contextualize and explain the broader significance of thisdiplomatic exchange, deftly interweaving discussions of cloth production, international diplomacy,and popular representations of Madagascar and the Malagasy people in Europe and the United States.Together they tell a fascinating story of the people and history of this island country.

Essays provide a comprehensive survey of Madagascar's textiles, past and present. They examinethe importance of cloth to the Malagasy, both as creative works of art and as objects imbuedwith great social and cultural significance. They also consider the life histories of textilessuch as the silks offered by Queen Ranavalona III, which moved from the category of politicallycharged gift to museum ethnological object. The little-known history of American-Malagasy tiesis explored through the compelling biography of John Lewis Waller, the American consul toMadagascar from 1891 to 1894. An African American born into slavery, he both supportedMadagascar's independence and dreamed of establishing an all-black colony there.The exchanges--and the misunderstandings--that have characterized the meetings between Madagascarand Western nations and peoples are further examined through a study of the ways in which19th-century photographs and other visual images were used by Westerners to create stereotypesof the Malagasy and by the Malagasy themselves to create and project identities of their ownchoosing. ... Read more

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In recent years, millions of people have joined churches such as the Seventh-day Adventist which prosper enormously in different parts of the world. The Road to Clarity is one of the first ethnographic in-depth studies of this phenomenon. It is a vivid account based on almost two years of participation in ordinary church members' daily religious and non-religious lives. The book offers a fascinating inquiry into the nature of long-term commitment to Adventism among rural people in Madagascar. Eva Keller argues that the key attraction of the church lies in the excitement of study, argument, and intellectual exploration. This is a novel approach which challenges utilitarian and cultural particularist explanations of the success of this kind of Christianity. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on September 1, 1997. The length of the article is 7330 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Observations of territoriality, vocalizations, display behavior, and nesting of the Velvet Asity (Philepitta castanea: Eurylaimidae: Philepittinae) indicate that this species is polygynous. Males defend nonresource-based, display territories that are distributed in dispersed leks. Male display repertoires include six elaborate secondary sexual display elements which are performed in both intrasexual and intersexual contexts. Pairs of female-plumage birds construct the nest outside of male territories, and females perform post-fledging parental care. Occassional observations of adult males in association with female-plumaged birds at the nest indicate potential plasticity in breeding behavior within the species. The evolution of the breeding system, display behavior, plumage, delayed male plumage maturation, and molt of the asities is discussed in a phylogenetic context. Two displays of P. castanea originally evolved in the common ancestor of the asities. The distinctive appearance of P. castanea in the breeding season is a worn basic plumage which has evolved by acquisition of a sexually dichromatic basic plumage and the loss of the prealternate molt. Delayed plumage maturation originally evolved in the common ancestor of the genus Philepitta. An additional, distinctive, predefinitive plumage stage-class has evolved in Schlegel's Asity (P. schlegeli).

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Title: Lek behavior and natural history of the velvet asity (Philepitta castanea: Eurylaimidae)
Author: Richard O. Prum
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1997
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: v109Issue: n3Page: p371(22)

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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on September 1, 1998. The length of the article is 2119 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Based on pellets collected at the first known nest of this endemic species, data are presented on the diet of the Madagascar Red Owl (Tyto soumagnei). This owl feeds almost exclusively on small mammals, the vast majority of which are native to the island. There is evidence that this species hunts at the forest edge and uses open human-degraded habitats. There is virtually no overlap in the diet of the Madagascar Red Owl and the Barn Owl (T. alba).

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Title: The diet of the Madagascar Red Owl (Tyto soumagnei) on the Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar.
Author: Steven M. Goodman
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1998
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: v110Issue: n3Page: p417(4)

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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on March 1, 1999. The length of the article is 3797 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: We investigated Madagascar Fish-Eagle (Haliaeetus vociferoides) foraging ecology to determine prey preference and the effect of fish abundance on fish-eagle foraging rates and foraging success. We observed fish-eagle foraging behavior at nine lakes in western Madagascar from May to August 1996, We sampled the fish population at each lake using gill nets and recorded fish weights and species. Introduced tilapia, Oreochromis spp. and Tilapia spp., made up the majority of both the gill net (66.3%) and fish-eagle catch (64.7%) in similar proportion, suggesting that the fish-eagle is an opportunistic predator. Consequently, replacement of native fish species by exotics probably has not been detrimental to the island's fish-eagle population. Male fish-eagle foraging success was positively correlated (P [less than] 0.001) with number of fish species, suggesting that fish species diversity may affect fish-eagle foraging effectiveness.

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Title: Madagascar fish-eagle prey preference and foraging success.
Author: James Berkelman
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1999
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: 111Issue: 1Page: 15(7)

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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. ... Read more