Men and Popular Music in Algeria
29 January '14
Rai music is often called the voice of the voiceless in Algeria, a society currently swept by tragic conflict. Rai is the voice of Algerian men, young men caught between generations and classes, in political strife, and in economic inequality. In a ground-breaking study, anthropologist Marc Schade-Poulsen uses this popular music genre as a lens […]
Passing of French Algeria, The
29 January '14
Savage War of Peace, A
29 January '14
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were driven […]
Making of Contemporary Algeria, 1830-1987, The
29 January '14
In 1962, after the war of independence, the new rulers of Algeria inherited a country which had both the manpower and the financial resources needed for development, because of its reserves of oil and natural gas. During the last 26 years there have been discussions and experiments revolving around two problems: whether the economy should […]
Urban Growth and Housing Policy in Algeria
29 January '14
This is the outcome of an intensive study of migration, urbanization and urban settlement in a developing country. It examines these processes in the context of the sociology of development and includes a detailed discussion of migration and urban housing in Algeria. The main aim is to assess the way in which the extended period […]
Imperial Identities
29 January '14
This account of Algerian history explores the process through which ethnic categories and cultural distinctions were developed and used as instruments of social control in a colonial society. Lorcin examines the circumstances which gave rise to, and the influences which shaped, the colonial images of “good” Kabyle and “bad” Arab (usually referred to as the […]