Yazid Ben Hounet, Ph.D. (2006), EHESS, Paris, is a social anthropologist and research fellow at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. Recent publications include: (with Deborah Puccio-Den, eds.), Truth, Intentionality and Evidence: Anthropological Approaches to Crime (Routledge, 2017).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Arabic TransliterationIntroduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Law and Property in AlgeriaYazid Ben Hounet and Baudouin Dupret1 Land Tenure and Capital Ownership in AlgeriaAmmar Belhimer2 The Legitimacy of Tilling the Land versus Land Use Rights: Algerian Farmers’ Land Appropriation Processes on Public LandHichem Amichi, Marcel Kuper and Sami Bouarfa3 Rights of Access or Rights to Bypass? Maritime Concessions in AlgeriaTarik Dahou4 Dignity and Honour: Struggles over Land and Legitimacy in the Soummam ValleyJudith Scheele5 Land Appropriation, Tenure and Legal Practices in a Steppe-like Environment (Algeria)Yazid Ben Hounet6 Anomie and the Post-Colonial State: Local Justice in the M’zabNejm Benessaiah7 To Compensate or Not to Compensate? Law, Property and Sahrawi Refugees in AlgeriaAlice Wilson8 Kafāla and Succession: The Practices of Transfer of the “Parent’s” Name and Goods to an Adopted ChildEmilie BarraudIndex

Yazid Ben Hounet, Ph.D. (2006), EHESS, Paris, is a social anthropologist and research fellow at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. Recent publications include: (with Deborah Puccio-Den, eds.), Truth, Intentionality and Evidence: Anthropological Approaches to Crime (Routledge, 2017).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Arabic TransliterationIntroduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Law and Property in AlgeriaYazid Ben Hounet and Baudouin Dupret1 Land Tenure and Capital Ownership in AlgeriaAmmar Belhimer2 The Legitimacy of Tilling the Land versus Land Use Rights: Algerian Farmers’ Land Appropriation Processes on Public LandHichem Amichi, Marcel Kuper and Sami Bouarfa3 Rights of Access or Rights to Bypass? Maritime Concessions in AlgeriaTarik Dahou4 Dignity and Honour: Struggles over Land and Legitimacy in the Soummam ValleyJudith Scheele5 Land Appropriation, Tenure and Legal Practices in a Steppe-like Environment (Algeria)Yazid Ben Hounet6 Anomie and the Post-Colonial State: Local Justice in the M’zabNejm Benessaiah7 To Compensate or Not to Compensate? Law, Property and Sahrawi Refugees in AlgeriaAlice Wilson8 Kafāla and Succession: The Practices of Transfer of the “Parent’s” Name and Goods to an Adopted ChildEmilie BarraudIndex

Yazid Ben Hounet, Ph.D. (2006), EHESS, Paris, is a social anthropologist and research fellow at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique. Recent publications include: (with Deborah Puccio-Den, eds.), Truth, Intentionality and Evidence: Anthropological Approaches to Crime (Routledge, 2017).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Arabic TransliterationIntroduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Law and Property in AlgeriaYazid Ben Hounet and Baudouin Dupret1 Land Tenure and Capital Ownership in AlgeriaAmmar Belhimer2 The Legitimacy of Tilling the Land versus Land Use Rights: Algerian Farmers’ Land Appropriation Processes on Public LandHichem Amichi, Marcel Kuper and Sami Bouarfa3 Rights of Access or Rights to Bypass? Maritime Concessions in AlgeriaTarik Dahou4 Dignity and Honour: Struggles over Land and Legitimacy in the Soummam ValleyJudith Scheele5 Land Appropriation, Tenure and Legal Practices in a Steppe-like Environment (Algeria)Yazid Ben Hounet6 Anomie and the Post-Colonial State: Local Justice in the M’zabNejm Benessaiah7 To Compensate or Not to Compensate? Law, Property and Sahrawi Refugees in AlgeriaAlice Wilson8 Kafāla and Succession: The Practices of Transfer of the “Parent’s” Name and Goods to an Adopted ChildEmilie BarraudIndex