Hunting the ethical state : the Benkadi movement of Côte d'Ivoire /
Hellweg, Joseph.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mestizo dozos : sacrifice, shape-shifting, and the state -- Criminal instability : history, identity, and mimesis in a state of exception -- Dozos at home and on the hunt -- Sacrificing for security -- Disappearance as power : Islam and the secret history of Manimory -- Organizing Benkadi -- Stalking crime -- The power in the nightjar's call : dozo performance as social drama -- Conclusion : from civic duty to civil unrest.
Crime prevention
Social movements
Hunting customs
Africans
Sacrifice
Islamic occultism