Table of contents for Lords and lemurs : mad scientists, kings with spears, and the survival of diversity in Madagascar / Alison Jolly.

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Acknowledgments                                           vii
A Note on Malagasy Names                                 viii
Map of Madagascar                                          x
1. Lemurs Just Behind Their Houses
2. Meow! Sifaka! Pig-Grunt-Grunt-Grunt-Grunt
Lemurs and Lemur-watchers, 90,000,000 B.C. to 2000 A.D.    9
3. He Wanted the Whole Forest!
The de Heaulmes and the Tandroy, I660-1940                36
4. I Licked His Feet Very Heartily
The Tandroy and Their English Slave, 1703-1I77            72
5. I Begged My Grandmother to Tell the Governor-General
Famine, War, and Revolution, I940-1948                    97



6. Me? I'm a Lathe Operator
The Golden Fibers, 1948-1960                          I27
7. A Very Cheap Wife
Chantal and Fenistina and Me, I963-I975               154
8. If We Hear They Hurt You, We Will Come Back
with Our Spears
Malagasy Socialism, I971-1979                         176
9. Our Country Is Committing Suicide
Debt, Conservation, and the Bank, I980-1992           196
10. SOS: Save Our South!
Famine, 1991-I992                                     222
11. Here the Children Inherit
Berenty, 2000                                         234
12. "This Is Anything But Idiot. This Is Whole"
Funeral at the Lucky Baobab, 2000                     254
Epilogue
2002, 2003                                            268
Appendix: Scientists Who Have Worked at Berenty       279
Notes                                                 28I
Index                                                 299