Forest and labor in Madagascar [electronic resource] : from colonial concession to global biosphere / Genese Marie Sodikoff.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Geographies of borrowed time -- Overland on foot, aloft: an anatomy of the social structure -- Land and languor: on what makes good work -- Toward a new nature: rank and value in conservation bureaucracy -- Contracting space: making deals in a global hot spot -- How the dead matter: the production of heritage -- Cooked rice wages: internal contradiction and subjective experience -- Epilogue: workers of the vanishing world.

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