LEADER 04320nam 22006371 450 001 9910154887803321 005 20141209124710.0 010 $a9780755609307 010 $a0755609301 010 $a9781784537661 010 $a1784537667 010 $a9780857724205 010 $a0857724207 024 7 $a10.5040/9780755609307 035 $a(CKB)3880000000002288 035 $a(EBL)3012101 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001442675 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11823061 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001442675 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11420207 035 $a(PQKB)11396954 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3012101 035 $a(OCoLC)901227555 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09264599 035 $a(UtOrBLW)BP9780755609307BC 035 $a(EXLCZ)993880000000002288 100 $a20200131d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBerber government $ethe Kabyle polity in pre-colonial Algeria /$fHugh Roberts 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cI.B. Tauris,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 225 0 $aLibrary of Middle East history ;$v14 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781845112516 311 08$a1845112512 311 08$a9781322639956 311 08$a1322639957 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [299]-312) and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: Considering Kabylia -- Chapter 2: Perspectives on Berber politics -- Chapter 3: The Kabyle Economy: Leqbaiel and Igawawen -- Chapter 4: Pre-Colonial Kabylia: Forms of Settlement -- Chapter 5: Kabyle Law -- Chapter 6: The Kabyle Polity -- Chapter 7: Pre-Colonial Kabylia and the Regency: Religion and Political Development, 1510-1624 -- Chapter 8: The Rise and Fall of the Lords of Koukou -- Chapter 9: The Reconstitution of Greater Kabylia after 1630. 330 $a"The Berber identity movement in North Africa was pioneered by the Kabyles of Algeria. But a preoccupation with identity and language has obscured the fact that Kabyle dissidence has been rooted in democratic aspirations inspired by the political traditions of Kabylia itself, a Berber-speaking region in the north of Algeria. The political organisation of pre-colonial Kabylia, from which these traditions originate, was well-described by nineteenth-century French ethnographers. But their inability to explain it led to a trend amongst later theorists of Berber society, such as Ernest Gellner and Pierre Bourdieu, to dismiss Kabylia's political institutions, notably the jema'a (assembly or council), and to reduce Berber politics to a function of social structure and shared religion. In Berber Government, Hugh Roberts, a renowned expert on North Africa, uncovers and explores the remarkable logics of Kabyle political organisation. Combining political anthropology and political and social history in an interdisciplinary analysis, Roberts challenges the excessive emphasis on kinship and religion in the study of the Maghreb. He instead explores the political structures and processes of the Kabyles, examining the organisation of the Kabyle polity and its intricate frameworks of law, political representation and self-government. Additionally, in a pioneering account of Kabylia's relations with the Ottoman Regency, he provides the first in-depth historical explanation of the genesis of the Kabyle polity as this existed at the moment of the French conquest of the region in 1857. In thus grounding the explanation of Kabyle political organisation in a resolutely historical analysis spanning the Ottoman era, Berber Government offers a radical alternative to previous paradigms and lays the foundation of new way of understanding the complex place and role of the Kabyles in Algerian political life from the pre-colonial era to the present day."--Bloomsbury publishing. 606 $aBerbers$zAlgeria$xPolitics and government 606 $aAfrican history$2BIC 615 0$aBerbers$xPolitics and government. 615 7$aAfrican history. 676 $a965/.004933 700 $aRoberts$b Hugh$f1950-$0657911 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154887803321 996 $aBerber government$92960393 997 $aUNINA