Algerian graveyard stories./Ce que racontent les cimetieres algeriens.

From: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Scheele, Judith | Copyright information

Issues surrounding the ways in which people deal with severe political disruption and violence are sometimes obscure, as it is in the nature of both to defy verbal expression and collective attempts to produce sense. Ethnography of Algeria suggests that to look at local graveyards, their layout, and the practices and conflicts associated with them is a way of understanding not only how people deal with death and violence, but also how they construe social order, political legitimacy, and hi...

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