On the Spanish-Moroccan Frontier

Part 1 The Hispano-African frontier in history: the anthropologist in the city; frontier and ethnicity; ritual and power; the enclave; the permeability of the frontier; the Presidio as a frontier institution; Catholicism on the frontier; desertion and apostasy; breaches in the frontier; from Presidio to trading post; Spanish expansion and Rifian resistance; life on the frontier; a booming trading post; taming Rifian society; pre-colonial images of the Rif; military ethnography; academic ethnography and the Rif; the making of a Jewish community; legends of origins; the beginning of a new Jewish community; the arrival of rural Jews; consolidation of the Jewish community; an ambiguous minority. Part 2 Ritual, power and ethnicity: a ceremony of the national flag; a ceremonial symbol par excellence; celebrating ethnic hegemony; structure and meaning of the flag ceremony; the dead nourishing the living; the Catholic ancestors; death in Melilla; the city of the dead; the cult of the cemetery; death cult and ethnicity; ritualization in inter-ethnic encounters; accommodation among ethnic elites; non-reciprocal "joking" and avoidance; Hindus and Muslims; Brahmans as compradores; from tribe to ghetto; "The Ravine of Death"; organizing Muslim ethnicity; marginality, bodily discourse and blurred ethnicity; the making of a community of marginals; an enclave within the enclave; prowess and prostitution.