The resurrection of anthropology: ”North Africa in anthropological debates”

Morocco Times

Prologues, the North African review of books, chose to dedicate its winter issue to anthropology in North Africa. Coordinated by anthropologist Hassan Rachik, this number focuses on the evolution of this discipline in both North Africa and Spain. After decades of isolation due its being associated with colonisation and ethnic divisions, anthropology is slowly making its way back into universities.

Now that North African countries no longer focus on the protection of their newly acquired Nation States - which led them to cast aside anything outside their common Arab heritage - it is up to the very descendants of the populations examined by Gellner, Geertz or Berque to make this discipline theirs. >> continue