3 - Anatomy of a Berber Village
Corresponding Author(s) : Douglas A. Yates
Revue africaine des livres,
Vol. 7 No 1 (2011): evue africaine des Livres, volume 7, n° 1, 2011
Résumé
Who are the Berbers? How has their identity been constructed? Why have French scholars been so fascinated by this people? These are some of the hard questions answered by Judith Scheele, a research fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, in her recently released monograph, Village Matters, the latest in a series on African Anthropology published by James Currey in association with the School for Advanced Research. As its title indicates, this book is also concerned with the importance of ‘the village’ as an analytical tool for understanding society, that is, as a unit of analysis for modern ethnographic case study...