Books by Jennifer Cole

This study of colonial memory asks the question, how do once-colonized people remember the colonial period? Drawing on an ethnography of the social practices of remembering and forgetting in one community in Madagascar, the book develops a practice-based approach to social memory.

Eager to forge a viable future amid poverty and rising consumerism, many young women entered the sexual economy in hope of finding a European husband. This book chronicles the coming of age of a generation of women in Tamatave in the years that followed Madagascar's economic liberalization.