@article{2019:kneitz:the_lords_,
title = {The Lords of Muskets},
year = {2019},
note = {When firearms first arrived on the island of Madagascar at the
beginning of the 16th century, they soon became a very much
sought-after commodity for the local population. This contribution
traces for the first time the history of firearm technology on
Madagascar during precolonial times, until the French colonization in
1896, in a systematic perspective. A case study on the use of firearms
around 1710 shows that firearms became integrated into an already
long-established logic of intensive war. On the political level, the
firearms gave rise to a new form of chieftaincy that has endured for
more than three centuries: the “lords of muskets.”},
journal = {Anthropos},
pages = {119--144},
author = {Kneitz, Peter},
volume = {114},
number = {1}
}