Berber Government
The Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria
Seiten
2017
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-766-1 (ISBN)
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-766-1 (ISBN)
The Berber identity movement in North Africa was pioneered by the Kabyles of Algeria. But a preoccupation with identity and language has obscured the fact that Kabyle dissidence has been rooted in democratic aspirations inspired by the political traditions of Kabylia itself, a Berber-speaking region in the north of Algeria.
The Berber identity movement in North Africa was pioneered by the Kabyles of Algeria. But a preoccupation with identity and language has obscured the fact that Kabyle dissidence has been rooted in democratic aspirations inspired by the political traditions of Kabylia itself, a mountainous region in northern Algeria. The political organisation of pre-colonial Kabylia, from which these traditions originate, was well-described by nineteenth-century French ethnographers. But their inability to explain it led to a trend amongst later theorists of Berber society, such as Ernest Gellner and Pierre Bourdieu, to dismiss Kabylia's political institutions, notably the jema‘a (assembly or council), and to reduce Berber politics to a function of social structure and shared religion. In Berber Government, Hugh Roberts explores the remarkable logics of Kabyle political organisation and the unusual degree of autonomy it enjoyed in relation to both kinship divisions and the religious field. Combining political anthropology and political and social history in an interdisciplinary analysis, this book further offers a pioneering account of the history of Kabylia during the Ottoman period and establishes a radically new way to understand the complex place of the Kabyles in Algerian politics..
The Berber identity movement in North Africa was pioneered by the Kabyles of Algeria. But a preoccupation with identity and language has obscured the fact that Kabyle dissidence has been rooted in democratic aspirations inspired by the political traditions of Kabylia itself, a mountainous region in northern Algeria. The political organisation of pre-colonial Kabylia, from which these traditions originate, was well-described by nineteenth-century French ethnographers. But their inability to explain it led to a trend amongst later theorists of Berber society, such as Ernest Gellner and Pierre Bourdieu, to dismiss Kabylia's political institutions, notably the jema‘a (assembly or council), and to reduce Berber politics to a function of social structure and shared religion. In Berber Government, Hugh Roberts explores the remarkable logics of Kabyle political organisation and the unusual degree of autonomy it enjoyed in relation to both kinship divisions and the religious field. Combining political anthropology and political and social history in an interdisciplinary analysis, this book further offers a pioneering account of the history of Kabylia during the Ottoman period and establishes a radically new way to understand the complex place of the Kabyles in Algerian politics..
Hugh Roberts is the Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History, Emeritus, at Tufts University, USA, and a Visiting Professor in the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is also the author of The Battlefield: Algeria 1988-2002 (2017).
Chapter 1: Considering Kabylia
Chapter 2: Economy and Forms of Settlement
Chapter 3: Kabyle Law
Chapter 4: The Kabyle Polity
Chapter 5: Pre-colonial Kabylia and the Regency: Religion and Political Development, 1509-1639
Chapter 6: The Rise and Fall of the Lords of Koukou
Chapter 7: The Reconstitution of Greater Kabylia after 1640
Chapter 8: Transcending Kabylia: the Constitutional Tradition and the Exceptional Tradition
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.01.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 15 b&w integrated, 12 maps, 13 tables |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 467 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78453-766-7 / 1784537667 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78453-766-1 / 9781784537661 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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