Law and property in Algeria : anthropological perspectives / edited by Yazid Ben Hounet.

"This volume was published with the support of the French National Agency for Research (ANR), as an outcome of the research project "Property in Moslem Transitional Environments" (PROMETEE) that was conducted within the frame of the German-French program FRAL and associated teams affiliated to the Centre Jacques-Berque (CJB) of Rabat and the Erlanger Zentrum fur Islam und Recht in Europa (EZIRE)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Land tenure and capital ownership in Algeria / Ammar Belhimer -- The legitimacy of tilling the land versus land use rights : Algerian farmers' land appropriation processes on public land / Hichem Amichi, Marcel Kuper and Sami Bouarfa -- Rights of access or rights to bypass? Maritime concessions in Algeria / Tarik Dahou -- Dignity and honour : struggles over land and legitimacy in the Soummam Valley / Judith Scheele -- Land appropriation, tenure and legal practices in a steppe-like environment (Algeria) / Yazid Ben Hounet -- Anomie and the post-colonial state : local justice in the M'zab / Nejm Benessaiah -- To compensate or not to compensate? Law, property and Sahrawi refugees in Algeria / Alice Wilson -- Kaf�ala and succession : the practices of transfer of the "parent's" name and goods to an adopted child / Emilie Barraud.