Publication of Des tribus en Kabylie?

7 September 2022
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The 2001 uprising in Kabylia (Algeria) and its politico-media treatment have raised questions about the reality of the tribe (arch) today.
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This book, which crosses history and ethnology, first offers an epistemological reflection on the anthropological concept of "tribe" in order to confront it with the diverse tribal realities of the Berber domain and to characterize the tribe in Kabylia. He shows that tribal referents are part of the classificatory categories on which self-representations are based. The case of one tribe reveals the maintenance of a lived and represented tribal space, the adaptation of old institutions to various political orders and the proliferation of initiatives that multiply the meanings of the term arch. This reflects the construction of new modes of mobilization that are part of a now secular process of identity affirmation and has led, since the 1990s, to a work of identity reconstruction on a local scale affecting varied cultural objects, memory and language.