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Madagascar

The early history of Indian Ocean voyaging is much less understood than voyaging across the Pacific, but it is possible that our exploration of island life today will lead us - and our audience - to some new discoveries about the connections between Asia, the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and Africa.

Some connections are already known among specialists in ethnology, archaeology, linguistics, botany, musicology, and other fields, but by bringing the different lines of evidence together, and by bringing some of the living people together, new ideas and information may emerge.

Cuisine: Thanks to the French influence, much information about local cuisine is available, see: Boutique Reunion, and goutanou.

Education See L'Academie de la Reunion.

Economy The FAO has an online report on economic development in islands of the western Indian Ocean. EnvironmentSussman, Robert W., Glen M. Green, and Linda K. Sussman. 1996. "The use of satellite imagery and anthropology to assess the causes of deforestation in Madagascar." In Leslie E. Sponsel, Thomas N. Headland and Robert C. Bailey (eds.), Tropical deforestation: The human dimension , 296-315. New York: Columbia University Press. See also "Indian Ocean: Cradle of Globalization, and Wild Madagascar

Genetics Hurles ME, et al. (2005) The dual origin of the malagasy in island southeast Asia and East Africa: evidence from maternal and paternal lineages. Am J Hum Genet. 76;894-901. Abstract PMID: 15793703 (see also "The cryptic past of Madagascar" published online by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Languages The closest language to Malagasy outside of Madagascar is Ma'anyan (also known as Maanyak Dayak, Ma'anjan) in southern Borneo (Kalimantan, Indonesia). Malagasy itself includes many local languages or dialects (see Malagasy language list). A geneaology of Malagasy languages is also provided by SIL (Source for these notes: Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: www.ethnologue.com/).

Photography A French travel site with excellent Madagascar photographs by Dome Sakayvo es Hautes Terres de Madagascar.

Prehistory & Voyaging Vosmer, Tom (1996) Watercraft and Navigation in the Indian Ocean: An Evolutionary Perspective. Pp. 223-42 in The Prehistory of Asia and Oceania, ed. Gennadii Afanas'ev, S. Cleuziou, J.R. Lukacs, and M. Tosi. International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. Forlì Italy: ABACO Edizioni. Horton, Mark (1997) Reviews of Mare Nostrum a new archaeology in the Indian Ocean?; Reade (ed.) The Indian Ocean in Antiquity; Ray & Salles (ed.) Tradition and archaeology: early maritime contacts in the Indian Ocean; andd Boussac & Salles (ed.) Athens, Aden, Arikamedu: essays on the interrelations between India, Arabia and the eastern Mediterranean (Antiquity 71, Sept. 1997). Anderson, A. (2002) "Taking to the Boats" - a public lecture for the National Institute of Asia and the Pacific (December 18th, 2002).

General Hilary Bradt (2004) Madagascar: The Bradt Travel Guide, 8th edition. An award-winning and authoritative travel guide.

 

Genetics

The Prehistory of Melanesia, as viewed by the Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies at Cambridge University.

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