Endangered Species : Health, Illness, and Death Among Madagascar's People of the Forest

Series Editors' Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 3(30) Backdrop 4(3) Organization and Objectives of the Ranomafana National Park Project 7(13) Clarifying the ``Cultural'' Context of Environmental Change 20(5) Political Ecology of Health 25(4) Issues Raised in the Presentation of People 29(4) The Anthropology of Forest Medicine Use 33(16) The Research Setting 49(26) A Biodiversity of People 49(5) The Village and Villagers of Ranotsara 54(2) Living and Working in the Forest 56(6) Daily Activities 62(1) The Forest and the Land 63(4) The Agricultural System of the Ranomafana Region 67(4) The Labor and Education of Children 71(1) Regional Links 71(4) No Other Place on Earth: The Historical Context of Environmental Change in Madagascar 75(24) The Rise of a Pre-Colonial Autocracy 76(2) Land Reorganization 78(3) Industrialization and Environmental Change 81(4) Colonial Land and Labor Policies 85(5) Population Migration and Land Reorganization in the Ranomafana/Ifanadiana Region 90(2) Conservation and Development: Post-Colonial Land and Economic Reforms 92(7) Social Status and Access to Land 99(24) Tribalism and Concepts of Race in Madagascar 100(3) Forging Ethnicities 103(2) Deepening Social Divisions and Castes 105(2) Emergence of Betsileo and Tanala Ethnicities 107(4) Honoring Tradition: ``Cultural Sensitivity'' and the RNPP 111(12) Dividing That Which Cannot Be Divided: Ancestry and Ethnicity in Ranotsara 123(30) The Founding of a ``Tanala'' Village 124(3) Caste and Class in Ranotsara 127(8) Accessing Health Resources 135(1) Changes in Health and Health Care 136(6) Conceptualizing Ethnicity and Health 142(11) Photographs 149(4) Naturalizing Sickness 153(30) Medicine for the Dead 153(6) A Quest for Diagnosis 159(7) Under the Skin: Suffering with Scabies 166(7) Parasites and Rice Fields 173(5) Critical Medical Anthropology 178(5) Life and Death in Ranotsara 183(28) Treating, and Not Treating, Illness 183(3) The Malagasy Medical System 186(11) Explanatory Models for A Culture-Bound Diagnosis 197(6) Death That No Medicine Could Prevent 203(6) The Birth of a ``Tanala'' 209(2) Conclusion 211(24) Forest Medicines 212(3) Culture, Ethnicity, and Medicine 215(1) Historicizing Health and Environmental Practice 216(3) The Use and Misuse of Science in Conceptualizing the Environment 219(5) Global Patterns of Conservation 224(5) In Closing: Culture and Ethnicity Applied to Policy 229(6) Epilogue 235(6) One Last Death 235(6) Genealogy Chart 241(2) Glossary 243(6) Bibliography 249(16) Index 265