Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere

Contents

contents Acknowledgments xi A Word on the Orthography and Pronunciation xix 1. Geographies of Borrowed Time 1 2. Overland on Foot, Aloft: 29 An Anatomy of the Social Structure 3. Land and Languor 51 On What Makes Good Work 4. Toward a New Nature 87 Rank and Value in Conservation Bureaucracy 5. Contracting Space 115 Making Deals in a Global Hot Spot 6. How the Dead Matter 139 The Production of Heritage 7. Cooked Rice Wages 161 Internal Contradiction and Subjective Experience Epilogue: Workers of the Vanishing World 183 Glossary of Malagasy Words 191 Notes 195 Bibliography 203 Index 239 ...