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The “Malagasy Greoles” of Tamatave in the I9th Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Manassé Esoavelomandroso
Manassé Esoavelomandroso*
Affiliation:
University of Madagascar.
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On the shores of Madagascar there appeared in the 19th century an influential group whose members were called—erroneously —by strangers as well as by the Merina oligarchy, the “Malagasy creóles”. As a matter of fact the latter are half-castes born of Malagasies and (prevalently) Frenchmen. However, their contemporaries did not confuse them with the mulattos or malata (zona malata), descendants of filibusters or pirates who frequented the East Coast, and their Malagasy mates; on the other hand they, themselves, refused the designation of malata. Thus the name of “Malagasy creole”—even if false, because it does not describe Europeans born in Madagascar—defines a precise social group well into the 19th century.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 28 , Issue 111 , September 1980 , pp. 50 - 63
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Copyright © 1980 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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