Cargando…
Hunting the Ethical State : the Benkadi Movement of Cote d'Ivoire.
In the 1990s a nationwide crime wave overtook Côte d'Ivoire. The Ivoirian police failed to control the situation, so a group of poor, politically marginalized, and mostly Muslim men took on the role of the people's protectors as part of a movement they called Benkadi. These men were dozos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Chicago, IL :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the 1990s a nationwide crime wave overtook Côte d'Ivoire. The Ivoirian police failed to control the situation, so a group of poor, politically marginalized, and mostly Muslim men took on the role of the people's protectors as part of a movement they called Benkadi. These men were dozos--hunters skilled in ritual sacrifice--and they applied their hunting and occult expertise, along with the ethical principles implicit in both forms of knowledge, to the tracking and capturing of thieves. Meanwhile, as Benkadi emerged, so too did the ethnic, regional, and religious divisions that would culminate. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (309 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226326559 0226326551 1283362597 9781283362597 9780226326542 0226326543 9780226326535 0226326535 |