1996
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Anthropologie et Sociétés ; vol. 20 no. 2 (1996)
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Alain Mahé, « Entre le religieux, le juridique et le politique : l'éthique. Réflexions sur la nature du rigorisme moral et sanctionné pas les assemblées villageoises de Grande Kabylie », Anthropologie et Sociétés, ID : 10.7202/015416ar
Between the Religious, the Legal and the Politic : The EthicsThoughts on the Nature of Moral Rigorism, as Promoted and Sanctioned by the GreaterKabylia Village AssembliesAs it was recently confirmed by local elections and the first round of general elections, neither the reconstruction of the identity fabric, nor the partisan political mobilization of a modem type, are led in Greater Kabylia, under the sign of the religious. The region, however, is also going through bursts of moral rigorism. This moral rigorism which, beyond the local activity of village communities, pervades the policital life in Kabylia, though seemingly close to the ethics of radical islamism, is very far from it in many respects. The multiplicity of legitimacy referents explicitely used by this rigorism as an excuse (the reference to local " traditions ", to gentility honour and to islam) shows, on the one hand, the atypism of Kabylia within contemporary Algeria and, on the other and, the diversity of possible political expressions of the rigorist ethics of the century in Algeria.Key words : Mahe, Kabylia, rigorism, social tie, ethics, public/private space