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Analyzes the anthropological models of social memory for former settlers in Algeria. Details on the nature of popular historical memory; Exploration of the composite character of memory; Description of colonial assimilation.

The Cape fox (A. Smith 1933), with a body mass between 2 and 3 kg, is the smallest canid and the only vulpine canid occurring in Southern Africa. A previous survey in the same area in October 2014, using the same survey design and camera trap station locations did not detect the species. Our overall camera trapping records suggest that Cape foxes are extremely rare in western Zimbabwe having been recorded at only one of 536 camera trap sites deployed between 2013 and 2018 and detected on only five of a total of 24,175, 24-hr trapping days. [Extracted from the article]

A list of books received is presented. They include "Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia," by Kathleen M. Adams, "Sorrow and Joy Among Muslim Women: The Pukhtuns of Northern Pakistan," by Amineh Ahmed and "Powers of Blessing From the Wilderness and From Heaven: Structure and Transformation in the Religion of Toraja in the Mamasa Area of South Sulawesi," by Kees Bujis.

The article discusses on the restructuring of social categories of the Konso community in Ethiopia following the fall of the socialist government. For generations, the Konso community is segregated into two social classes, the Xauta, the workers, and the Etenta, the elders. After the fall of socialism a reconfiguration of hereditary status groups took place through interaction with new information and the changes in political and economic situations.

It is apparent that the past has a robust future. With the intensification of globalization comes an increase in discourses of the past, accompanied by an expansion of memory studies in the academy. This "memory moment" is generating research on topics that are at once intensely personal and political. Anthropological approaches capable of linking the affective textures of personal experience with the broad sweep of collective histories are well suited to research in this area. Taken together, the articles assembled here suggest the emergence of new paradigms for understanding the cultural and emotional politics of social memory making. [memory, history, identity, cultural politics, cultural psychology] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]