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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, IL :
University of Chicago Press
2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47050019*spi |
| 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (309 páginas) |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 251-279) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780226326559 9781283362597 9780226326542 9780226326535 |
