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22%OFFJoseph Hellweg - Hunting the Ethical State - 9780226326542 - V9780226326542
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Hunting the Ethical State

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Description for Hunting the Ethical State Paperback. In 1990s 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. This title reveals how dozos worked beyond the divisions to derive their new roles as enforcers of security. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 halftones, 3 maps, 1 line drawing, 2 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1HFDY; 3JJPR; HBJH; HBLW3; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
In the 1990s a nationwide crime wave overtook Cote 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 in Cote ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226326542
SKU
V9780226326542
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About Joseph Hellweg
Joseph Hellweg is assistant professor of religion at Florida State University.

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