| Description |
1 online resource (309 pages) |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Note on Names, Tense, and Orthography; Acknowledgments; 1. Mestizo Dozos: Sacrifice, Shape-Shifting, and the State; 2. Criminal Instability: History, Identity, and Mimesis in a State of Exception; 3. Dozos at Home and on the Hunt; 4. Sacrificing for Security; 5. Disappearance as Power: Islam and the Secret History of Manimory; 6. Organizing Benkadi; 7. Stalking Crime; 8. The Power in the Nightjar's Call: Dozo Performance as Social Drama; 9. Conclusion: From Civic Duty to Civil Unrest; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Crime prevention -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Citizen participation -- History -- 20th century
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Social movements -- Côte d'Ivoire -- History -- 20th century
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Hunting customs -- Côte d'Ivoire
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Africans -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Rites and ceremonies
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Sacrifice -- Social aspects -- Côte d'Ivoire
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Islamic occultism -- Social aspects -- Côte d'Ivoire
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HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
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Africans -- Rites and ceremonies
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Crime prevention -- Citizen participation
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Hunting customs
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Social movements
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| SUBJECT |
Côte d'Ivoire -- History -- 1993- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007004080
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| Subject |
Côte d'Ivoire
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226326559 |
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0226326551 |
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1283362597 |
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9781283362597 |
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9780226326542 |
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0226326543 |
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9780226326535 |
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0226326535 |
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