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The politics and aesthetics of commemoration: national days in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Heike Becker --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South Africa Carola Lentz --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South AfricaThe contributions to the special section in this issue study recent independence celebrations and other national days in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They explore the role of national days in state-making and nation-building,... -
National days between commemoration and celebration: remembering 1947 and 1960 in Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Mareike Späth --- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Helihanta Rajaonarison --- Université d'Antananarivo, MadagascarToday Madagascar officially celebrates two national holidays. 29 March is dedicated to the memory of anticolonial resistance in 1947, the commemoration of the dead and the decoration of surviving combatants. 26 June in contrast is celebrated as Madagascar's return to... -
The politics and aesthetics of commemoration: national days in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Heike Becker --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South Africa Carola Lentz --- Department of Anthropology and African Studies, GermanyThe contributions to the special section in this issue study recent independence celebrations and other national days in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They explore the role of national days in state-making and nation-building,... -
National days between commemoration and celebration: remembering 1947 and 1960 in Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Mareike Späth --- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Helihanta Rajaonarison --- Université d'Antananarivo, MadagascarToday Madagascar officially celebrates two national holidays. 29 March is dedicated to the memory of anticolonial resistance in 1947, the commemoration of the dead and the decoration of surviving combatants. 26 June in contrast is celebrated as Madagascar's return to...