Physical Description
xv, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents
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.
ISBN
9780226123608
022612360X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226123745 (pbk. : alk. paper)
022612374X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes
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.
