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E. Randrianja and M. , , p.125

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, Madagascar because their existence shows that most slave descendants have managed to 'reancestralize' themselves, meaning that they have built tombs that now contain several

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, For an historical example among the southern Betsileo see Regnier, p.119

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, On the importance of tombs and burials in Madagascar, see in particular Bloch

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, Malagasy: Mpitolona ho amin'ny Fanjakana'ny Madinika, French: Militants pour le Pouvoir Prolétarien

, 364. For Jennifer Jackson, their name is even more explicit: they are the Zatovo western andevo I' Madagascar ('The western slaves of Madagascar'). She argues that ZOAM is actually zoam's politicized reincarnation. See Jennifer Jackson, Political Oratory and Cartooning: An Ethnography of Democratic Process in Madagascar, This slang term is often presented as an acronym. Jean-Roland Randriamaro reports two definitions: ZWAM, for Zatovo Western Amerikana Malagasy, vol.140, pp.23-40, 2013.

, See for instance Janine Ramamonjisoa « Blancs et noirs. Les dimensions de l'inégalité sociale. Documents socio-linguistiques ». Cahiers des sciences sociales, vol.1, p.41, 1986.

P. Jackson and . Oratory, 52. discuss, both publicly and privately. The reserve regarding slavery is often justified by two opposite arguments: slavery is either no longer relevant or too serious an issue to be evoked at all. Claims of equality (achieved or yet to come) hide the persistence of the stigma
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