o:id
	12632
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12632
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	Book
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	bibo:Book
dcterms:title
	Hunting the Ethical State: The Benkadi Movement of Côte d'Ivoire
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25269
dcterms:date
	2011
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8541
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115367911 Q115367911
	iwac-reference-0000687
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	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 in Côte d'Ivoire's 2002–07 rebellion. Hunting the Ethical State reveals how dozos worked beyond these divisions to derive their new roles as enforcers of security from their ritual hunting ethos. Much as they used sorcery to shape-shift and outwit game, they now transformed into unofficial police, and their ritual networks became police bureaucracies. Though these Muslim and northern-descended men would later resist the state, Joseph Hellweg demonstrates how they briefly succeeded at making a place for themselves within it. Ultimately, Hellweg interprets Benkadi as a flawed but ingenious and thoroughly modern attempt by non-state actors to reform an African state.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/298
dcterms:provenance
	Chicago
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1755
bibo:numPages
	291

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