Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-208) and index
Description:
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 IGlossary and Place Names --Appendix IIThe Forced Resettlement Centers of the Collo Massif --Appendix IIIThe Forced Resettlement Centers of the Chelif Valley --Appendix IVOne Aspect of Depeasantization: The Discovery of Illness.
"A classic study of forced displacement by one of the greatest sociologists of the 20th century"--