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Uprooting : the crisis of traditional agriculture in Algeria / Pierre Bourdieu, Abdelmayak Sayad ; edited by Paul A. Silverstein ; translated by Susan Emanuel.
Van Pelt Library HN783.A8 B682513 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002, author.
- Sayad, Abdelmalek, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Déracinement. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Migration, Internal.
- Rural conditions.
- Algeria--Rural conditions.
- Algeria.
- Migration, Internal--Algeria.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 214 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "A classic study of forced displacement by one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Forced Resettlement and the Logic of Colonialism
- Forced resettlement and property laws
- Landless peasants
- Traditionalism of despair
- Disdain and confusion
- 2. Two Histories, Two Societies
- Acculturation and deculturation
- Two exemplary societies: the Collo Massif and the Chelif Valley
- Cultural transactions and colonial interventionism
- Types of authority and types of intervention
- The contradictions of colonial ideology and the contradiction of colonialism
- Specifics of the study
- 3. Forced Resettlement and the Crisis of Traditional Agriculture
- Dangers, control, and harassment
- Kerkera: objective obstacles
- Ai'n-Aghbel: effect exceeds cause
- Djebabra: partial and elective abandonment
- 4. The Discovery of Work
- Employment and the awareness of unemployment
- Experience of wages and attitudes to work
- The prestige of a "trade" (metier)
- A widespread attitude
- Economic attitudes and family traditions
- Time convertible into money
- Discovering the scarcity of work
- 5. Tafallaht, or the Consummate Peasant
- Portrait of the "naif
- From naivety to folly
- "Peasants of the end of time"
- 6. Farming Without Farmers
- Refusal to admit
- Unavowed disavowal
- The alibi and the admission
- The separation
- 7. Town-Dwellers Without a Town
- From clan to household
- Confronting differences
- The broken group
- From familiarity to anonymity
- The urban situation and peasant values
- Space, time, and values
- 8. The Cultural Sabiv
- Coexistence of contraries
- Djeha `snail'
- Two contradictory abstractions
- The educator and the bureaucrat
- Appendices
- Appendix I Glossary and Place Names
- Appendix II The Forced Resettlement Centers of the Collo Massif
- Appendix III The Forced Resettlement Centers of the Chelif Valley
- Appendix IV One Aspect of Depeasantization: The Discovery of Illness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780745623535
- 0745623530
- 9780745623542
- 0745623549
- OCLC:
- 1128060504
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