Introduction: Inventing Indigeneity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on Translation and Transliteration ix
4. Prologue: The Lost Archive xi
5. Introduction: Inventing Indigeneity 1
6. 1. Anthropology and the Ghost of the Colonial Past 19
7. 2. Jews Northern and Southern: The French Annexation of the Mzab and the Boundaries of Colonial Law 41
8. 3. Governing Typologies: From the Conquest of the Mzab to the Touggourt/Dreyfus Affair 57
9. 4. Contested Access: Conscription, Public Health, and Education from the Fin de Siècle through the Interwar Period 75
10. 5. Saharan Battlegrounds: From the Vichy Regime to a Postwar World 95
11. 6. Oil, the Algerian War of Independence, and Competing Stories of Departure 116
12. Conclusion: Colonial Shadows 138
13. Epilogue: Dark Matter 149
14. Acknowledgments 157
15. Abbreviations of Archival and Library Collections 163
16. Notes 165
17. Bibliography 231
18. Index 253