Title Hunting the Ethical State : the Benkadi Movement of Cote d'Ivoire

Published Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (309 pages) Contents List of Illustrations; Note on Names, Tense, and Orthography; Acknowledgments; 1. Mestizo Dozos: Sacrifice, Shape-Shifting, and the State; 2. Criminal Instability: History, Identity, and Mimesis in a State of Exception; 3. Dozos at Home and on the Hunt; 4. Sacrificing for Security; 5. Disappearance as Power: Islam and the Secret History of Manimory; 6. Organizing Benkadi; 7. Stalking Crime; 8. The Power in the Nightjar's Call: Dozo Performance as Social Drama; 9. Conclusion: From Civic Duty to Civil Unrest; Notes; References; Index Summary In the 1990s a nationwide crime wave overtook Côte d'Ivoire. The Ivoirian police failed to control the situation, so a group of poor, politically marginalized, and mostly Muslim men took on the role of the people's protectors as part of a movement they called Benkadi. These men were dozos--hunters skilled in ritual sacrifice--and they applied their hunting and occult expertise, along with the ethical principles implicit in both forms of knowledge, to the tracking and capturing of thieves. Meanwhile, as Benkadi emerged, so too did the ethnic, regional, and religious divisions that would culminate Analysis ethics, hunter, benkadi, movement, cote divoire, ivory coast, africa, african, 1990s, 20th century, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, police, cops, justice, politics, political, muslim, sacrifice, occult, thieves, theft, rebellion, 2000s, security, bureaucracy, islamic, occultism, identity, mimesis, stalking, social studies, culture, cultural Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-279) and index Notes Print version record Subject Crime prevention -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Citizen participation -- History -- 20th century Social movements -- Côte d'Ivoire -- History -- 20th century Hunting customs -- Côte d'Ivoire Africans -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Rites and ceremonies Sacrifice -- Social aspects -- Côte d'Ivoire Islamic occultism -- Social aspects -- Côte d'Ivoire HISTORY -- Africa -- West. Africans -- Rites and ceremonies Crime prevention -- Citizen participation Hunting customs Social movements Côte d'Ivoire -- History -- 1993- Côte d'Ivoire Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011000119 ISBN 9780226326559 0226326551 1283362597 9781283362597 9780226326542 0226326543 9780226326535 0226326535

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