This book considers secularism and its narrative expressions. It shows how secularism is articulated, and transmitted ubiquitously within state institutions and outside of them.

Abdelmajid Hannoum is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, USA.

Introduction

1. Translation and the Imaginary

2. Other Times, Other Places, Other Secularisms

3. Two Narratives of the Anthropology of Islam

4. Violence in Translation, or Fanon Otherwise

5. Being (From) There: Anthropology and Nativism

6. Paul Ricoeur on Memory

7. What is an Order of Time?

8. Archiving Algeria: Power, Violence, and Secrecy

9. Memory of the Surface: Colonial Forgetting in Post-Colonial France

10. Cartoons, Secularism, and Inequality