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Homeless: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar

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In 1989, anthropologist David Graeber traveled to the highlands of Madagascar, where tensions reigned after a recent catastrophe—a massive famine caused by the violation of local customs. He conducted long-term fieldwork in the rural community of Betafo, divided between the descendants of nobles and slaves. By studying the organization of society and the historical memory of the Malagasy, the author shows how political action is realized in the absence of formal hierarchical institutions of power and how politics is built around everyday practices, such as storytelling, aimed at keeping people from open clashes.

"The Unsheltered" demonstrates that political action can be a form of storytelling, and anthropological ethnography can be a tool for understanding how societies work with complex historical pasts, preventing them from sliding into the abyss of mass violence.
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