{"product_id":"hunting-the-ethical-state-joseph-hellweg-9780226326542","title":"Hunting the Ethical State: The Benkadi Movement of Côte d'Ivoire","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003edozos\u003c\/i\u003e--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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHunting the Ethical State\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Hellweg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226326543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226326542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Joseph Hellweg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096661434623,"sku":"9780226326542","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hunting-the-ethical-state-joseph-hellweg-9780226326542","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}