Uprooting : the crisis of traditional agriculture in Algeria /
Bourdieu, Pierre,1930-2002,author.
Sayad, Abdelmalek,author.
Silverstein, Paul A.,1970-editor.
Emanuel, Susan,translator.
"A classic study of forced displacement by one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century"--
Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-208) and index.
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.
"A classic study of forced displacement by one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century"--
Migration, Internal