Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Bourdieu in Algeria Jane E. Goodman and Paul A. Silverstein 1. The Phantom of Dispossession: From The Uprooting to The Weight of the World Fanny Colonna 2. The Proverbial Bourdieu: Habitus and the Politics of Representation in the Ethnography of Kabylia Jane E. Goodman 3. Bourdieu's Ethnography in Bearn and Kabylia: The Peasant Habitus Deborah Reed-Danahay 4. Of Rooting and Uprooting: Kabyle Habitus, Domesticity and Structural Nostalgia Paul A. Silverstein 5. Phenomenology and Ethnography: On Kabyle Habitus in the Work of Pierre Bourdieu Abdellah Hammoudi Afterword: Re-reading Bourdieu on Kabylia in the Twenty-First Century Dale Eickelman Contributors

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Collection of essays analyzing Pierre Bourdieu's early fieldwork in Algeria and its impact on his larger body of social theory

About the Author

Jane E. Goodman is an associate professor in the Communication and Culture Department at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video. Paul A. Silverstein is an associate professor of anthropology at Reed College. He is the author of Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation and the coeditor of Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Contributors: Fanny Colonna, Dale Eickelman, Jane E. Goodman, Abdellah Hammoudi, Deborah Reed-Danahay, and Paul A. Silverstein