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1/10 Anthropology & Algeria 🇩🇿 some notes, that is, a thread from (outside of) the field**, or should the--privileged & de-centred--zmigré** grandchild speak***?
*Ref. Rabinow (1977)
**Often derogatory way to refer to diaspora Algerians
***Ref. Spivak (1988)
*Ref. Rabinow (1977)
**Often derogatory way to refer to diaspora Algerians
***Ref. Spivak (1988)
2/10 French imperial anthropology (travelogues, folklore specialists, philologists etc) helped shape Algeria from the outside. From mid 19C, they sought to classify, appropriate & dominate locally observed cultural forms & differences: clothes, customs, & languages. 
3/10 Significant was artistic representation of local life (Cf. Delacroix) & linguistic classification (Cf. Desparmet). This, perhaps, is 1 reason why the current movement (hirak) is clear, whilst not insensitive to contemporary non-western geopol, that it's a 'family affair”
