Jane E Goodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 89948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane E Goodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane E |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodman |
| SIGNATURE | GOODMAN J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Algerian halqa theatre
Cultural exchange through the arts can take forms that either flatten or energise artistic heritage. The genres of encounter through which such exchanges take place are vital to their success. This paper examines encounters between the Algerian theatre troupe Istijmam and the French troupe GENA as they worked to produce an Algerian play based on the tradition of halqa, or marketplace storytelling. An ethnographic account of the troupes’ rehearsal…
Heetchin' a ride
This article explores how ride-hailing apps have been adapted to local social practices in Oran, Algeria. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2024, it examines how drivers and passengers navigate between digital coordinates and socially meaningful landmarks in a city where official street names - whether colonial French or post-independence Arabic - rarely match how people actually find their way around. Rather than eliminating personal …
Ramzi Rouighi. Inventing the Berbers
Journal Article Ramzi Rouighi. Inventing the Berbers: History and Ideology in the Maghrib. Get access Ramzi Rouighi. Inventing the Berbers: History and Ideology in the Maghrib. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 261. Paper $29.95. Jane E. Goodman Jane E. Goodman Indiana University Bloomington, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, V…
Rebecca J. Tolen
Embodying Halqa
Istijmam, an Algerian theater troupe selected to tour the United States in 2016 by the Center Stage program of the US State Department, sought to recreate for US audiences an experience of halqa, a traditional North African storytelling performance. Algerian playwrights had been experimenting with the halqa since the 1960s, putting it in dialogue with Brechtian styles of acting. Istijmam went further, attempting to recreate an embodied experience…
Before the ruins
In a seaside Algerian town, a cherished local theater was about to be demolished to make way for a touristic boardwalk. In response the community of actors gathered at the theater in what, from one perspective, appeared to be a street protest. Yet if we approach the apparent protest in terms of the unfolding material encounters between bodies, backhoes, and buildings, we begin to see alternative performances of vigil, visitation, and mourning tha…
Picturing Algeria, foreword by Craig Calhoun
Citational Practices
Citation is a foundational dimension of human language and social life. Citational practices attribute utterances to distinct speakers, beings, or texts. They also connect temporalities, joining past, present, and future discourses, documents, and performance practices. In so doing, citational practices play a pivotal role in linking particular articulations of subjectivity to wider formations of cultural knowledge and authority. We explore how t…
The man behind the curtain
This article examines the construction of state and regime in Algeria through performance and narrative. It is ethnographically centred around a series of events surrounding the demolition, relocation, and reconstitution of a local theatre. I argue that even as Algerians position themselves discursively outside the political regime and deny that they can impact its decisions, they also find pragmatic ways of working with it in order to shape thei…
Acting with One Voice
Scholars of democracy from Tocqueville to Habermas have long considered the proliferation of so-called voluntary associations as a sign of a flourishing civil society and as central to the rise of democratic modernity. I contend that the Algerian theatrical and musical associations of the reformist period anticipate another kind of civic history: a history of displays of unanimism in public life. I am interested in how and why Algerians learned t…
Bourdieu in Algeria
The shadow cast by Pierre Bourdieu’s theory is large and well documented, but his early ethnographic work in Algeria is less well known and often overlooked. This volume, the first critical examination of Bourdieu’s early fieldwork and its impact on his larger body of social theory, represents an original and much-needed contribution to the field. Its six essays reappraise Bourdieu’s original research in light of contemporary processes and make s…
Amazigh Arts in Morocco
We share walls
public spaces becoming places of mediation through which the ax (power, vital force) is transformed into a 'cultural value'.He insists that objects of cultural value must be known, seen, and reproduced, but in Candombl you are not allowed to see or depict these objects.The question, therefore, is how to transform secret values into cultural values so that they become public.Sansi defines this process as the outcome of extended interaction between…
Algeria in France
Algeria in France
Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation. Paul A. Silverstein. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. 284 pp
From village to vinyl
In 1973, the song A vava inouva 1 (Oh my father) galvanized the Algerian population. Composed by a young, unknown musician who called himself Idir (‘to live’) from a text penned by poet Ben Mohamed
The Proverbial Bourdieu
Since the 1970s, anthropologists have been centrally concerned with the relationship of ethnographic representation to political and historical context. Interestingly, the work of Pierre Bourdieu has largely escaped such contextualization, despite the significance of Bourdieu's ideas to anthropological theorizing. Today, many of Bourdieu's central concepts float free from the context out of which they arose-the Kabyle region of Algeria. This arti…
Stealing Our Heritage
Africa Today - Volume 49, Number 1, Spring 2002
The Half-Lives of Texts
Poetry, politics, and ethnography have been intimately linked in Algeria's Kabyle Berber region for over a century. This article examines two entextualizations of a related Kabyle poem: one recorded by French colonel Hanoteau in 1867 and the other unearthed by Kabyle scholar and cultural activist Mammeri in 1980. By analyzing the relationship between metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function in each poetry collection, the article shows h…
Between Two Fires
Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Postsocialism. Alaina Lemon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. vii. 308 pp., photographs, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index
Writing empire, underwriting nation
In this article, I explore how colonial, nationalist, and media interests converge around the collection of oral texts. Moving from the French colonial project of collecting native lore to the nationalist project to recover indigenous heritage to the embedding of village songs in contemporary world music, I examine how oral texts from Algeria's Kabyle Berber region have been variously configured as signs through which social differences are imagi…
Singers, Saints, and the Construction of Postcolonial Subjectivities in Algeria
Through a close study of the multivocal plays ofintertextuality in the "new songs" of Algeria's Berber Cultural Movement, this paper explores how genres can support the emergence of new forms of self-recognition and promote novel possibilities for engagement with older expressive forms. Via double-voiced parodies of religious chants known as adekker, the new Berber singers call into question the "magical" powers of saints and exhort the populatio…
Citational Practices
Citation is a foundational dimension of human language and social life. Citational practices attribute utterances to distinct speakers, beings, or texts. They also connect temporalities, joining past, present, and future discourses, documents, and performance practices. In so doing, citational practices play a pivotal role in linking particular articulations of subjectivity to wider formations of cultural knowledge and authority. We explore how t…
The Proverbial Bourdieu
Since the 1970s, anthropologists have been centrally concerned with the relationship of ethnographic representation to political and historical context. Interestingly, the work of Pierre Bourdieu has largely escaped such contextualization, despite the significance of Bourdieu's ideas to anthropological theorizing. Today, many of Bourdieu's central concepts float free from the context out of which they arose-the Kabyle region of Algeria. This arti…
Writing empire, underwriting nation
In this article, I explore how colonial, nationalist, and media interests converge around the collection of oral texts. Moving from the French colonial project of collecting native lore to the nationalist project to recover indigenous heritage to the embedding of village songs in contemporary world music, I examine how oral texts from Algeria's Kabyle Berber region have been variously configured as signs through which social differences are imagi…
Singers, Saints, and the Construction of Postcolonial Subjectivities in Algeria
Through a close study of the multivocal plays ofintertextuality in the "new songs" of Algeria's Berber Cultural Movement, this paper explores how genres can support the emergence of new forms of self-recognition and promote novel possibilities for engagement with older expressive forms. Via double-voiced parodies of religious chants known as adekker, the new Berber singers call into question the "magical" powers of saints and exhort the populatio…
The man behind the curtain
This article examines the construction of state and regime in Algeria through performance and narrative. It is ethnographically centred around a series of events surrounding the demolition, relocation, and reconstitution of a local theatre. I argue that even as Algerians position themselves discursively outside the political regime and deny that they can impact its decisions, they also find pragmatic ways of working with it in order to shape thei…
The Half-Lives of Texts
Poetry, politics, and ethnography have been intimately linked in Algeria's Kabyle Berber region for over a century. This article examines two entextualizations of a related Kabyle poem: one recorded by French colonel Hanoteau in 1867 and the other unearthed by Kabyle scholar and cultural activist Mammeri in 1980. By analyzing the relationship between metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function in each poetry collection, the article shows h…
Stealing Our Heritage
Africa Today - Volume 49, Number 1, Spring 2002
Before the ruins
In a seaside Algerian town, a cherished local theater was about to be demolished to make way for a touristic boardwalk. In response the community of actors gathered at the theater in what, from one perspective, appeared to be a street protest. Yet if we approach the apparent protest in terms of the unfolding material encounters between bodies, backhoes, and buildings, we begin to see alternative performances of vigil, visitation, and mourning tha…
Acting with One Voice
Scholars of democracy from Tocqueville to Habermas have long considered the proliferation of so-called voluntary associations as a sign of a flourishing civil society and as central to the rise of democratic modernity. I contend that the Algerian theatrical and musical associations of the reformist period anticipate another kind of civic history: a history of displays of unanimism in public life. I am interested in how and why Algerians learned t…
From village to vinyl
In 1973, the song A vava inouva 1 (Oh my father) galvanized the Algerian population. Composed by a young, unknown musician who called himself Idir (‘to live’) from a text penned by poet Ben Mohamed
Singers, Saints, and the Construction of Postcolonial Subjectivities in Algeria
Through a close study of the multivocal plays ofintertextuality in the "new songs" of Algeria's Berber Cultural Movement, this paper explores how genres can support the emergence of new forms of self-recognition and promote novel possibilities for engagement with older expressive forms. Via double-voiced parodies of religious chants known as adekker, the new Berber singers call into question the "magical" powers of saints and exhort the populatio…
Stealing Our Heritage
Africa Today - Volume 49, Number 1, Spring 2002
The Half-Lives of Texts
Poetry, politics, and ethnography have been intimately linked in Algeria's Kabyle Berber region for over a century. This article examines two entextualizations of a related Kabyle poem: one recorded by French colonel Hanoteau in 1867 and the other unearthed by Kabyle scholar and cultural activist Mammeri in 1980. By analyzing the relationship between metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function in each poetry collection, the article shows h…
Between Two Fires
Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Postsocialism. Alaina Lemon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. vii. 308 pp., photographs, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index
Writing empire, underwriting nation
In this article, I explore how colonial, nationalist, and media interests converge around the collection of oral texts. Moving from the French colonial project of collecting native lore to the nationalist project to recover indigenous heritage to the embedding of village songs in contemporary world music, I examine how oral texts from Algeria's Kabyle Berber region have been variously configured as signs through which social differences are imagi…
From village to vinyl
In 1973, the song A vava inouva 1 (Oh my father) galvanized the Algerian population. Composed by a young, unknown musician who called himself Idir (‘to live’) from a text penned by poet Ben Mohamed
The Proverbial Bourdieu
Since the 1970s, anthropologists have been centrally concerned with the relationship of ethnographic representation to political and historical context. Interestingly, the work of Pierre Bourdieu has largely escaped such contextualization, despite the significance of Bourdieu's ideas to anthropological theorizing. Today, many of Bourdieu's central concepts float free from the context out of which they arose-the Kabyle region of Algeria. This arti…
Algeria in France
Algeria in France
Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation. Paul A. Silverstein. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. 284 pp
Bourdieu in Algeria
The shadow cast by Pierre Bourdieu’s theory is large and well documented, but his early ethnographic work in Algeria is less well known and often overlooked. This volume, the first critical examination of Bourdieu’s early fieldwork and its impact on his larger body of social theory, represents an original and much-needed contribution to the field. Its six essays reappraise Bourdieu’s original research in light of contemporary processes and make s…
Amazigh Arts in Morocco
We share walls
public spaces becoming places of mediation through which the ax (power, vital force) is transformed into a 'cultural value'.He insists that objects of cultural value must be known, seen, and reproduced, but in Candombl you are not allowed to see or depict these objects.The question, therefore, is how to transform secret values into cultural values so that they become public.Sansi defines this process as the outcome of extended interaction between…
The man behind the curtain
This article examines the construction of state and regime in Algeria through performance and narrative. It is ethnographically centred around a series of events surrounding the demolition, relocation, and reconstitution of a local theatre. I argue that even as Algerians position themselves discursively outside the political regime and deny that they can impact its decisions, they also find pragmatic ways of working with it in order to shape thei…
Acting with One Voice
Scholars of democracy from Tocqueville to Habermas have long considered the proliferation of so-called voluntary associations as a sign of a flourishing civil society and as central to the rise of democratic modernity. I contend that the Algerian theatrical and musical associations of the reformist period anticipate another kind of civic history: a history of displays of unanimism in public life. I am interested in how and why Algerians learned t…
Citational Practices
Citation is a foundational dimension of human language and social life. Citational practices attribute utterances to distinct speakers, beings, or texts. They also connect temporalities, joining past, present, and future discourses, documents, and performance practices. In so doing, citational practices play a pivotal role in linking particular articulations of subjectivity to wider formations of cultural knowledge and authority. We explore how t…
Picturing Algeria, foreword by Craig Calhoun
Before the ruins
In a seaside Algerian town, a cherished local theater was about to be demolished to make way for a touristic boardwalk. In response the community of actors gathered at the theater in what, from one perspective, appeared to be a street protest. Yet if we approach the apparent protest in terms of the unfolding material encounters between bodies, backhoes, and buildings, we begin to see alternative performances of vigil, visitation, and mourning tha…
Rebecca J. Tolen
Embodying Halqa
Istijmam, an Algerian theater troupe selected to tour the United States in 2016 by the Center Stage program of the US State Department, sought to recreate for US audiences an experience of halqa, a traditional North African storytelling performance. Algerian playwrights had been experimenting with the halqa since the 1960s, putting it in dialogue with Brechtian styles of acting. Istijmam went further, attempting to recreate an embodied experience…
Ramzi Rouighi. Inventing the Berbers
Journal Article Ramzi Rouighi. Inventing the Berbers: History and Ideology in the Maghrib. Get access Ramzi Rouighi. Inventing the Berbers: History and Ideology in the Maghrib. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 261. Paper $29.95. Jane E. Goodman Jane E. Goodman Indiana University Bloomington, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, V…
Heetchin' a ride
This article explores how ride-hailing apps have been adapted to local social practices in Oran, Algeria. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2024, it examines how drivers and passengers navigate between digital coordinates and socially meaningful landmarks in a city where official street names - whether colonial French or post-independence Arabic - rarely match how people actually find their way around. Rather than eliminating personal …
Algerian halqa theatre
Cultural exchange through the arts can take forms that either flatten or energise artistic heritage. The genres of encounter through which such exchanges take place are vital to their success. This paper examines encounters between the Algerian theatre troupe Istijmam and the French troupe GENA as they worked to produce an Algerian play based on the tradition of halqa, or marketplace storytelling. An ethnographic account of the troupes’ rehearsal…
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