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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 |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, IL :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Note on Names, Tense, and Orthography; Acknowledgments; 1. Mestizo Dozos: Sacrifice, Shape-Shifting, and the State; 2. Criminal Instability: History, Identity, and Mimesis in a State of Exception; 3. Dozos at Home and on the Hunt; 4. Sacrificing for Security; 5. Disappearance as Power: Islam and the Secret History of Manimory; 6. Organizing Benkadi; 7. Stalking Crime; 8. The Power in the Nightjar's Call: Dozo Performance as Social Drama; 9. Conclusion: From Civic Duty to Civil Unrest; Notes; References; Index.