- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Stein, Sarah Abrevaya, author.
- Published
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]
- Locale
- Algeria
Mzab (Algeria)
France
- Contents
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The lost archive
Introduction: inventing indigeneity
Anthropology and the ghost of the colonial past
Jews northern and southern: the French annexation of the Mzab and the boundaries of colonial law
Governing typologies: from the conquest of the Mzab to the Touggourt/Dreyfus affair
Contested access: conscription, public health, and education from the fin de siècle through the interwar period
Saharan battlegrounds: from the Vichy regime to a postwar world
Oil, the Algerian war of independence, and competing stories of departure
Conclusion: colonial shadows
Epilogue: dark matter.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and index.
The lost archive -- Introduction: inventing indigeneity -- Anthropology and the ghost of the colonial past -- Jews northern and southern: the French annexation of the Mzab and the boundaries of colonial law -- Governing typologies: from the conquest of the Mzab to the Touggourt/Dreyfus affair -- Contested access: conscription, public health, and education from the fin de siècle through the interwar period -- Saharan battlegrounds: from the Vichy regime to a postwar world -- Oil, the Algerian war of independence, and competing stories of departure -- Conclusion: colonial shadows -- Epilogue: dark matter.
