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Village Matters - Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia, Algeria (Hardcover)
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Village Matters - Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia, Algeria (Hardcover)
Series: African Anthropology
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Traces Kabylia's history through French occupation, the Algerian
war of independence, and the political turmoil that followed.
Kabylia is a Berber-speaking, densely populated mountainous region
east of Algiers, that has played an important part in Algerian pre-
and post-independence politics, and continues to be troublesome to
central government. But 'Kabylia' is also an ideal, shaped and
shared by a variety of intellectual trends both in Algeria and in
France. Kabylia was seen by sociologically minded
nineteenth-century French authors as a model of primitive democracy
and became central to their debates about good government, the
nature of 'race', nationhood, and the social bond. These qualities
have by now largely been appropriated by Kabyles themselves, and
have become central to Kabyle self-images discussed on numerous
websites run by Kabyle emigrants in France as much as by local
parties and associations in Kabylia itself. Central to this image
is the Kabyles' attachment to their home villages. But what exactly
makes a village a village? And how can this emphasis on communal
autonomy be articulated within a modern nation-state? These are the
questions this book tries to answer through an in-depth case study
of one particular village, analysing the contemporary debates that
animate it, and tracing its history through the French conquest and
occupation, the Algerian war of independence, and the political
turmoil, including the challenge of Islamist politics, that
followed independence. The 'village', as much as Kabylia as a
whole, emerges as a place made by its internal contradictions, and
that can only be understood with reference to the position it
occupies within the various intellectual, political, economic and
cultural 'world-systems' of which it is part. Judith Scheele is a
Research Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford
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