Colonial violence destroyed traditional mourning rites by making every death colonial

Evidence

It must not be believed, however, that the traditional ceremonies are repeated in the case of natural deaths, resulting from illnesses or accidents. Even then, it seems virtually impossible to revive the habitual techniques of despair. The war has dislocated Algerian society to such a point that any death is conceived of as a direct or indirect consequence of colonialist repression. Today there is not a dead person in Algeria who is not the victim of French colonialism. It is impossible for an Algerian civilian to remain untouched by the war of colonial reconquest. More than this, there is not a death of an Algerian outside of Algeria which is not attributed to French colonialism. The Algerian people have thus decided that, until independence, French colonialism will be innocent of none of the wounds inflicted upon its body and its consciousness. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 389 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: War dislocates society so all deaths are attributed to colonialism — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 389; OAS violence deliberately destroyed the communities it claimed to defend; Colonial ethnography reduces African rites to obscene primitive spectacle (+6 more)

Related

• Colonialism is held causally responsible for every single Algerian death (similarity 0.91)
• War dislocates society so all deaths are attributed to colonialism (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial ethnography reduces African rites to obscene primitive spectacle (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial conquest destroyed pre-colonial reciprocal governance traditions in Africa (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial violence created a spiritual void more powerful than class conflict. (similarity 0.80)
• Peoples habituated to colonial death do not fear atomic menace (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial attacks on a cultural practice determine where resistance crystallizes (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial violence against families forged Algerian national unity through shared suffering (similarity 0.79)
• Collective political murder suppresses traditional mourning in favor of silent gritting (similarity 0.78)
• Even extreme colonial repression does not justify every retaliatory act. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• War dislocates society so all deaths are attributed to colonialism #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 389
• OAS violence deliberately destroyed the communities it claimed to defend #exemplifies (0.50)
• Colonial conquest destroyed pre-colonial reciprocal governance traditions in Africa #exemplifies (0.50)
• Colonial ethnography reduces African rites to obscene primitive spectacle #complicates (0.40)
• Colonial conditions make life an incomplete, ever-menaced death #expands (0.40)
• Colonial attacks on a cultural practice determine where resistance crystallizes #complicates (0.35) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 164
• Tarrant’s massacre repeated settler-colonial violence against indigenous peoples #exemplifies (0.30)